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Lots for Sale in all parts of the Citv. 
Desirable Investment: 

Largest Fire Insurance agency in the country. 
Eigtiteen First Class Companies represented. 



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Money to loan on First Mortga ges. Gilt-edeed First Mnr"'''''^^* *°'' ^^'^' 
Titles InsuVed or Certified Searches Turnished Parties V-^ing money to 
loan call and look at o'jr form of application 

Property cared for, and the inferost of property 'wners in Ocean City 
cheerfully looked after without charge. 

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Goi^eord of Opipioi^s. 

Zi.'^HETHER it be true, as some contend, or not, that a man is known 
by the letters he receives, there is no doubt that a very good idea 
of the value of the Compound Oxygen Treatment of Drs. Starkey & 
Palen, of Philadelphia, can be obtained from the letters of patients 
who have tried it. Of course, having had the experience of twenty- 
three years in its use, we can give our own opinion, and a very decided 
one, too ; but it is well to know what others think. Therefore we give 
below a few words from our patients : 

"One thing is established, viz.: I cannot get along without the 
Compound Oxygen, and this conviction has grown with the years 
since I first began its use <now about ten or twelve years). During all 
this time I have studied and worked and preached almost constantly. 
I never could have done it without the Compound Oxygen. Without 
the help of its benign influence I should have been" practically an 
invalid ; with it and by its help I have been useful and active, I "need 
not multiply words of gratitude ; the story is all told when 1 have told 
the above. I can say nothing stronger to thank you." 

Rev. J. C. Lambert, loig Halsted St., Chicago. 111. 

" I am in better health generally than I have been in twenty years, 
and thank your Compound Oxygen, and your wise treatment "besides, 
for it all." 

Mrs. Lucinda M. Davis, Cortland, Ohio. 



" Through my sister's influence I was first induced to try the Com- 
pound Oxygen, which has been of such incalculable benefit to me, she 
having been relieved of a severe case of bronchitis by its use, which 
the doctors failed to cure." 

Mrs. S. a. Aubrey, Gamma, Mo. 

"My daughter. Miss Emily Willis, of Tyler, Texas, was cured of 
asthma by one treatment of Compound Oxygen, after suffering fifteen 
years." 

Ed. B. Willis. Tyler, Texas. 

We could give many more equally favorable letters, but will refer 
you to our book of 200 pages, sent free. Only genuine ; in fact, only 
Compound Oxygen. Any substance made elsewhere, or by others, and 
called Compound Oxygen, is spurious, 

DRS. STARKEY & PALEN, 

120 Sutter St., San Francisco, Cal. I 539 Arch St., Phlla. 

Dr. G. E. Palen, of the firm of Starkey &^ Palen, is a well known resident of Ocean 
City, and Treasurer of the Ocean City Association. 





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Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1894, 

By Mary Townsesd Rush, 

In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. 

(All rights reserved.) 




H. Q. Steelman, Hay or. 




Councilman J. P. Hand. 




Councilman J. C. Steelman. 




Councilman S. B. Sampson. 




Councilman H. C. Sutton. 



PgEFACSE. 



TN presenting to the public the Guide-Book and Directory 
for the season of 1894, we can but call attention to the fact 
of a continuation of the labor of prosecuting searches for histor- 
ical and statistical matter, as in compiling the edition of 1893, 
from which we quote : 

"In the researches which have been made, our correspon- 
dence has embraced thousands of miles of travel by sea and 
land; extending to London, to points on the Mediterranean sea, 
and many on our own continent. Information has been most 
courteously contributed by prominent officials of the State and 
others placed in a position to be in possession of facts. The 
annals to which we have gained access have been subjected to 
the most careful comparison and study. We have made it a 
special object to confine ourselves strictly, even to the most 
minute details, to historic truth. There may be imperfec- 
tions, but there are no embellishments, so far as honest pur- 
pose and careful examination have been -effectual in securing 
an authentic issue." 

We desire to make oui sincere acknowledgments to the 
citizens and press of Ocean City for many kind acts and words 
of encouragement, and for the substantial aid which they have 
contributed toward the work. 



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lathe picture, there i6 never dull raonotonij, 
|n the mu6ic there i6 perfect harmony." 

HETHER some upheaval of nature of a period known 
n^ only to him " Who laid the cornerstone thereof when 
the morning stars sang together," or, to judge by its 
alluvial character, the ocean in its ever encroaching, ever reced- 
ing surges, laid at the feet of the continent this emerald jewel 
in its setting of silver sands, we know not. That it was created 
for our enjoyment is sounded in the murmur of the pines, in the 
ripple of the waves and in the full diapason of the north wind as 
it lashes into fury the turbulent billows. The happy location, 
equi-distant from the bleak rock-bound shores of Maine and the 
sandy borders, swept by the hot breath of the tropics, of the 
land of Florida, and lying within the isothermal lines which 
mark the most equable temperature of the globe, favors it with 
an unparalled climate. Added to these advantages, the Gulf 
Stream in sweeping up the coast tempers* the nnter and ren- 
ders the island at that season a mild, healtl and delightful 
resort. The variety and abundance of its 1. . 's a source of 
constant wonder. February ushers in the s ^u of flowers 
with the tiny scarlet blossoms of an arctic plant nestling close 
beside the tropical cactus, which later on bursts into yellow 
gorgeousness. March sends a thrill thro' the invisible under- 
ground life and in quick response crocuses, hyacinths and tulips 



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spring into bloom. April develops into infinite beauty a wealth 
of wild flowers indigenous to the soil of both tropical and tem- 
perate regions. The perpetual green of the cedars is every- 
where seen. These add by their emerald touches to the per- 
fection of the crimson, russet and golden bloom of the sur- 
rounding luxuriant vegetation. Among their gnarled and 
straggling branches, and in the symmetrical boughs of the berry 
laden hollies, the cardinal or Virginia mocking bird trills in an 
abandon of ecstasy to his busy mate; the brown thrush lilts in 
full clarionet tones of the Southern rice fields, as his cousin, 
the robin, sways and bows on a neighboring branch in sublime 
indifference to every sound save his own liquid melody. The 
yellow oriole darts hither and thither like a sunbeam, while 
the ubiquitous song sparrow challenges alike the blue bird, 
swallow, lark and nuthatch to intrude upon his domain, in the 
firm conviction of his ability to conquer the entire feathered 
tribe. Long wavering lines of wild ducks, geese and brant 
move rapidly overhead from the bay to the ocean, while the 
bald eagle, albatross and sea gull, in their majestic sweeping 
flight, render by contrast the confusion greater of the fluttering 
flecks of curlew, plover and snipe. St. Patrick must have 
rested his foot upon the spot at some time, tlio' but part of the 
work was accomplished here, as elsewhere, when 

" He gave the toads and snakes a twist 
And banished them forever," 

for the toads remain, tho' of very diminutive proportions. 
Deer were once upon the list of its fauna. These have long 
since disappeared from the island but are still frequently shot 
on the neighboring mainland. A strange feature of animal 
life was seen up till eight or ten years ago in numbers of wild 
cats. The island became inhabited by them in the following 
manner: " Beach Parties," the memory of which is dear to 
the hearts of all the old residents of the adjacent main land, 
consisted of young people who sailed across Great Egg Harbor 
Bay to the island for a day's recreation in fishing and bathing, 
never forgetting to bring along a fiddler, and down on the 



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beach at low tide a terpsichorean fling was indulged in with a 
hilarity that would startle society now. These parties fre- 
quently brought superfluous cats from their homes which they 
turned loose. Tabby's antipathy to water prevented her return, 
but, nothing daunted by this misfortune, she exercised her nine 
life prerogative and commenced to forage on her own respon- 
sibility. Gradually her numbers increased and from a sleek, 
velvety, luxury-loving creature she developed through succes- 
sive generations her original size and ferocity. This strange 
metamorphose was noticeable particularly in the huge sharp 
claws, pointed ears and short, thick tail. Eff'orts to tame 
them were unsuccessful. They were frequently shot by sports- 
men now living in Ocean City. Possibly this custom origin- 
ated by its association, the saying at one time current that "the 
girls 'off shore' (on the main land) were turned loose on Peck's 
Beach when they became old maids." 

About the time of the disappearance of wildcats the last of a 
herd of wild cattle, which had undergone a transformation from 
a domestic to a wild nature, were exterminated. This herd 
orio-inated in some stray calves which were not claimed when 
the island was used for pasture lands only. Many an old 
sportsman remembers Great Egg Harbor Bay and its treasures 
of oysters and shellfish of every description, long before the 
island was inhabited. How they sailed over its waters or out 
of the inlets upon the ocean for deep sea fishing, returning 
from both ocean and bay laden then as now with drum fish, 
sheepshead, snapping mackerel, blue fish, hague croakers, 
weak fish or mullet, each in its stated season. September, 
1890, snapping mackerel chased a school of weak fish into the 
surf and it was estimated that eleven tons were caught by the 
residents of the city. This frequently occurs, tho' they seldom 
come in in such great numbers. Among the curiosities of 
the finny tribe are the quaint little sea horse, the sea robin, bur 
fish, shovel-nose and hammer-head sharks, sting ray and toad 
fish. The sea spider sprawls back to its native element in all 
its ungainliness when brought up by a sly wave, the king crab 



8 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 

burrows silently beneath its huge umbrella like coverine till 
it disappears under the sand. The pugilistic soldier crab scut- 
tles over the ground, bearing defiantly aloft its huge lone claw 
in flat contradiction to all known laws of gravitation. Here 
may be found ample material for reflection upon the saying, 
"As happy as a clam at high tide," for those who understand 
the nature of a bivalve, which to the casual observer is not at 
any time given to evidences of an elevated degree of levity. 
At the north point of the island, where the waters of the inlet 
wash across the sands, manose and razor clams find seductive 
ground. It is no unusual sight to see the shore on the opposite 
side dotted with visitors of the beautiful resort of Longport, as 
well as the Ocean City side, engaged in gathering these delicate 
and toothsome shellfish. The quahog of the bay and the surf 
clam of the ocean are always in demand. A sword fish was 
captured in the bay November 21, 1883, weighing two hundred 
and forty pounds, the sword measured four feet. A sunfish 
washed ashore in front of the Hotel Brighton June 27, 1883, 
weighing five hundred pounds. October 8, 1891, a rorqual 
whale, sixty-eight feet long, was cast on the beach. May, 1894, 
a dolphin was thrown up on the shore where it gave birth to a 
young one. The skeletons of the whale and the large dolphin, 
and the body of the young dolphin are now on exhibition at 
the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. A wealth of 
ocean life is continually coming up on the strand, from the 
highest and most gigantic forms on down through the lower 
orders, arousing our admiration at every step in the auroral 
tints upon the curved scroll of the shell, the delicate carving of 
the sea urchin, the prismatic lights of the medusa, still down to 
those dubious forms which mark the confines of the two great 
divisions of organic life, animal and plant, apparently having 
so little in common with each other, though always mingling 
with the former, specimens are cast up from sub-aqueous forests 
in a wonder of profusion. 



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" Look ! how the sea plants trembling float, 
All like a mermaid's locks, 
Waving, in thread of ruby red. 
Over the nether rocks. 



' See! on the violet sands beneath, 

How the gorgeous shells all glide ; 
O Sea ! Old Sea ! who yet knows half 
Of thy wonders and thy pride." 



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yistorical agd Pescriptive. 



OF the primitive inhabitants of the island we have no his- 
tory save the meagre records and traditions of the white 
man. In 1623 Captain May sailed up the Delware Bay and 
gave his name to its north cape, from which the county in 
which Peck's Beach is located takes its name, and he, together 
with other navigators, report Indians all along the coast. 
Prior to this time we are told of two tribes which held the land 
from "Sandy Barnegate down to the south cape" (May) 
whose chiefs bore the names of Tirans and Tiascans. These 
are doubtless the tribes of Kechemeches and Sorgehunnocks, 
branches of the great tribe of Delawares or Lcnni Lenapes 
mentioned by De Vries in his journals of 1631-2-3, in which 
he frequently refers to the Indians of what is now Egg Harbor. 
But little remains to us, however, of 

" These legends and traditions, 
With the odors of the forest, 
With the dew and damp of meadows. 
With the curling smoke of wigwams." 

In the flight of the same water fowl we hear no intelligible 
sounds. To us is not given to understand the language in 
which they imparted to these children of nature her mysteries. 

" All the wildfowl sang them to him, 
In the moorlands and the fenlands, 
Chetowaik, the plover, sang them ; 
Mahng, the loon, the wild goose, Wawa ; 
The blue heron, the Shushugah." 

Of his conquests of battle, his council fires, his deer-skin 




Rev, E. B. Lake- 




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wigwam, the hunt and chase, the records are facts locked in 
the graves and shell mounds* which alone remain. 

Following the red man came the European settler. I5ut 
sixteen vears after the first settlement made_ in New Jersey, 
that of Elizabethtown, in 1664, one hundred and fifty-one of 
the inhabitants of the part of the State then known as West 
New Jersey signed the first constitution of government created 
by the people themselves. The thirtieth name on the list of 
signers was that of Thomas Budd, to whom, on October 7th, 
1695, the first survey of Peck's Beach was made. The land 
was held by him for fifty-five years; its chief use was for grazing 
cattle and obtaining medicinal plants, of which sassafras and 
bayberry were the principal ones, and which, together with the 
great quantities which grew on the mainland, were shipped to 
Holland and other foreign ports. In 1750 John Somers bought 
five hundred acres in the northern part; this tract remained in 
the possession of the Somers family for one hundred and thirty 
years, or until the entire island was bought by the Ocean City 
Association, in 1880. The first houses known to be built and 
occupied by white settlers were those of the Kittles and Robin- 
sons. Joseph Robinson, now living on the island, is a 
descendant of the first named family. For over twenty years 
Parker Miller and family were the only residents of the island. 
He built his first residence on the site of what is now Thorn's 
hardware store. He soon afterwards built the house No. 730 
Asbury avenue, using for a kitchen the cabin of a wrecked 
steamer. • 

The Origin of Ocean City. 

Three Christian ministers, brothers by the ties of blood, 
Revs. S. Wesley, James E. and Ezra B. Lake, sons of Hon. 
S. Lake, had for some time directed their attention toward 
the establishing of a seaside resort where the sanctity of the 
Sabbath should be preserved and the sale of alcoholic liquors 
prohibited. In the summer of 1879, while sailing across Great 

♦Remains of these may also be found by the antiquarian upon the neighboring 
Longport Beach. 



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Egg Harbor Bay, they were impressed with the location and 
altitude of the well timbered island lying to the eastward of 
their course. September loth following they met at the home 
of their father, at Pleasantville, and in company with another 
clergyman proceeded from thence to the place designated. 
Landing close to where the large and commodious steamers of 
the Atlantic Coast Company now sweep up to a magnificent 
pier they moored their little craft and waded thro' the mud to 
shore. Several hours were spent in following the tortuous 
windings of the cowpaths thro' the otherwise impenetrable 
brush until weary and footsore they arrived at the northern 
point upon a wooded knoll overlooking the island. To the 
east lay the ocean in its never-ending wonder of infiniti- 
tude. The line marked by the command, " Hitherto shalt 
thou come and no further," was strewn with shells, seaweed 
and driftwood as far as the eye could reach. To the north the 
ebbing tide laid bare the shining sands of the Inlet, to the west 
Great Egg Harbor Bay stretched away for miles into the main 
land a quiet silver sheet. The sun in its decline was casting 
long quivering beams of red light over the broken swirl of 
waters on Great Egg Harbor bar and piling banks of crimson 
and gold and purple vapor in the western sky in the peculiar 
beauty of an ocean sunset. Here, impressed with the gran- 
deur of nature in her primeval condition, the quartette bowed 
beneath one of the patriarchal cedars* which had kept watch 
upon the shore for centuries, and in a service of prayer and 
song dedicated to Almighty God the projected work. 

Ocean City Association. 

The fine executive ability of these men was shown by 
the fact that October 20tli following a company had been 
formed with the above name, with Dr. W. B. Wood, 
of Philadelphia, as President. Active operations towards 
the fuliillment of its object were immediately begun by 

*This landmark now occupies a position at the west corner of the public park. 




The Illinois — Mrs. H. D. Canfield, Proprietress. 




Residence of Dr. F. R. Graham. 




The Vandalia House, 725 Central Avenue. 

Mrs. S. Burlev. Proprietress. 




Residence of Councilman S. B. Samoson, 



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securing the land and issuing stock. The first topographi- 
cal survey was made by W. Lake, February 13, 1880. 
The part known as Section A was staked off into avenues, 
streets and lots. This was rapidly cleared of brushwood and 
timber, thousands of feet of ditching were dug for drainage 
and hundreds of loads of brushwood were placed at the north 
point of the island for the purpose of gathering the moving 
sand and extending the ocean front. The first public sale of 
lots took place in May, 1880; these sold for about $50.00 each. 
The first deed was made to S. T. Champion. Lots to the value 
of $85,000 were soon disposed of and another portion of 
land. Section B, surveyed and laid out. A wharf one hundred 
and twenty-five feet long and seventy-two feet wide was built 
at an enormous cost; this was connected with the city by a 
good road over the meadows and a board walk running parallel 
with it the entire distance. A board walk was also built along 
the ocean front. The first building erected was the little 
Pioneer Cottage on the rear of the lot now occupied by the 
Association offices. It was used as a boarding-house for the 
mechanics then at work on the island, and was sometimes 
-occupied by forty men. The first building of any considerable 
size was that of the Bellevue, erected by I. B. Smith. It was 
upon the site of this house, at the •corner of Seventh street and 
Asburv avenue, that the first funeral services ever held on the 
island were conducted, those of Harry McCann, a boy killed by 
falling: from a cart while hauling sand. The funeral sermon 
was preached by Rev. W. H. Burrell to an audience of fifty 
mechanics and laborers seated in the open air on piles of lum- 
ber and building materials. The first hotel, the Ocean House, 
now Hotel Brighton, was also built by I. B- Smith. A rail- 
road was built from Pleasantville to Somers Point; this was for- 
mally opened October 26, 1880. A steamboat was purchased 
to ply between Somers Point and Ocean City, thus com- 
pleting connection with the outside world. A turnpike com- 
pany was organized to build a road from Beasley's Point to 
Ocean City, which, together with a bridge over Thoroughfare 



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Sound, was completed the following Spring. Thus, in an in- 
credibly short time, was the foundation laid and the work 
advanced of a most brilliant enterprise. Rev. E. B. Lake was 
appointed Superintendent when the Association was organized 
and has held the position ever since. Nature endowed him 
with the talents necessary for the work. He is associated with 
every movement of advancement in the city, few of which he 
is not the projector as well. There is not an acquired advan- 
tage of any resort upon the New Jersey coast that he has not 
thoroughly investigated, and when found practicable directed 
all his energy toward securing the same object in Ocean City. 
The present officers and managers are: President, Rev. S. W. 
Lake; Vice President, Rev. J. B. Graw; Secretary and Super- 
intendent, Rev. E. B. Lake; Treasurer, Dr. G. E. Palen; Direc- 
tors, G. L. Horn, G. B. Langley, H. B. Howell, Rev. J. E. 
Lake, Rev. W. B. Wood. 





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(Zity CouQcil. 



188 4- G. P. Moore, Major. 

B. Green, C. Doughty, 

P- Miller, W. H. Burrell. 

C. W. Boyle, Clerk. 

1885. G. P. Moore, Mayor. 

C. Doughty, P. Miller, 

W. H. Burrell, E. B. Lake. 

S. B. Miller, Clerk. 

1886. G. P. Moore, Mayor. 

C. Doughty, ' P. Miller, 

E. B. Lake, J. S. Waggoner. 

S. B. Miller, Clerk. 

1887. G. P. Moore, Mayor. 

P. Miller, S. B. Sampson, 

J. S. Waggoner, Hiram Steelman. 

S. B. Miller, Clerk. 

1888. G. P. Moore, Mayor. 
Hiram Steelman, J. Gandy, 

S. B. Sampson, , A. D. Barrows. 

S. B. Miller, Clerk. 

1889. G. P. Moore, Mayor. 

J. Gandy, R. H. Thorn, 

A. D. Barrows, J. Conver. 

J. S. Waggoner, Clerk. 



1 6 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 

1890. J. E. Pryor, Mayor. 

J. CoNVER, . A. D. Barrows, 

J. Brower, Hiram Steelman. 

J. vS. Waggoner, Clerk. 

1891. J. E. Pryor, Mayor. 

A. D. Barrows, J. Brower, 

J. CONVER, J. C. STEELMAN. 

S. B. Miller, Clerk. 

1892. ' G. P. Moore, Mayor. 

J. C. STEELMAN, J. CONVER, 

F. P. Canfield, N. Corson. 

H. B. Adams, Clerk. 

1893. G. P. Moore, Mayor. 

J. C. STEELMAN, J. F. Hand, 

N. Corson, F. P. Canfield. 

H. B. Adams, Clerk. 

1894. H. G. STEELMAN, Mayor. 

J. C. STEELMAN, J. F. HaND, 

S. B. Sampson, H. C. Sutton. 

E. A. Bourgeois, Clerk. 





Emma L. Sack — Captain Lewis Risley. 




The Emmett. 



OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 17 



OccaQ C^ity. 



^HE wildest imagination of the company of four clergymen 
as they sailed back over Great Egg Harbor Bay from' their 
first tour of investigation could not have conjured up visions of 
the result of the coming four years when an incorporated city 
should stand as a monument of their enterprise. When vested 
with municipal powers, the officers carried forward with the 
same energy and determination the work of growth and devel- 
opment. Ocean City has ever maintained her precedence 
not escaping vicissitudes and discouragements, but never yield- 
ing to defeat or disaster. Standing to-dav upon the threshold 
of a second decade, so brief a period in the life of a city, its 
phenomenal growth is but accentuated in every line of review 
we trace. Miles of paved and graded streets, electric railway 
and lights, steam railway, water works, beautiful homes of 
every description are the result of judicious and well-directed 
labor. The environments of Ocean City are such as irresisti- 
bly tend to the promotion of the city's growth, to the beauty 
of its location, to the inspiring of unbounded confidence in the 
future. The ideal of a seaside resort is here revealed. There 
are no manufactories with ceaseless hum of machinery sugo-est- 
ing toil and weariness. No furnaces poisoning the aii^with 
smoke and gas. No restless hurrying to and fro of weary feet 
All undefined sense of contentment and rest is borne upon the 
salt breezes and heard in the never-ending roll of the breakers 
along the shore. It is a noticeable fact that people who have 
once resided here for a full year and enjoved the beautv of each 
season are seldom satisfied to take up the old routine of life 



again 



l8 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 

Health. 

An extended reputation as a health resort is being rapidly 
acquired. Hardly any form of disease originates in Ocean City, 
while upon many diseases acquired elsewhere, simple residence 
and the use of salt waters in the bathing season, together with 
hot sand baths, are more beneficial than ordinary medical 
treatment. There is no malaria. Asthma and lung diseases 
are unknown. There are but few of the many complaints to 
which humanity is subject that are not reduced to a minimum 
by the climatic forces. A glimpse of the army of tourists 
which annually gather here when they are returning to their 
homes in the fall, confirms this statement in the rounded limbs 
and rosy cheeks of once exhausted school children, the spring- 
ing step of former invalids and the sparkling light and happy 
flu'sh on faces that such a short time before were wan and hag- 
gard. 

Bathing. 

Surf bathing can be indulged in with the most beneficial 
results by the last of May or first of June till late in October. 
Owing to the wide shelving strand and the absence of quick- 
sands^or dangerous ground, this luxury is permissible at either 
high or low tide, while the exhaustion caused by heavy 
breakers is never experienced. To those who prefer deep 
water bathing the bay aff"ords every facility. 




Residence of E. A, Bourgeois, City Clerk. 




Enoch Burleigh's Cottages, nth Street and Central Ave, 



OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 



19 



Water. 

The most potent factor in the matter of health is fresh 
pure water. Nearly eight hundred feet below the surface 
courses have been tapped and Ocean City is supplied with cold 
sparkling water in an unlimited quantity, the purity of which 
has been tested by the noted chemist, Dr. Henry Leffman, of 
Philadelphia, in the following analysis. Dr. Leffman also says, 
in a personal interview, " the water is absolutely pure and 
healthy and far ahead of any artesian water known. 



Parts i,ooo,oco 

Condition . Clear 

Color None 

Reaction Alkaline 

Total solids (on evaporation) .' . . 7.00 

Ammonia by alk. permang. (albumoid ammonia) . . Trace 

Ammonia (free ammonia) , 0.12 

Nitrites None 

Nitrates None 

Poisonous metals None 



This is pure water, suitable for drinking and all household 
purposes. It remains clear and without odor on standing." 

Yours, 

Henry Leffman. 



20 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 

Sewer Drainage and Garbage Restrictions. 

Evidences of sanitary precaution are found in the entire 
absence of accumulations of an unhealthy character at any 
point. Arrangements have been completed for the introduc- 
tion of a system of drainage which fills the best scientific 
demand. It is already in operation in the hotels and will be 
extended throughout the city. There is not an alley that is not 
pure and clean. The Board of Health have adopted such 
measures as restrict the exposure of garbage in open vessels at 
cottages or hotels. The closed vessels are cleansed daily or 
semi-daily, as the temperature or condition of the weather , 
demands, and the garbage disposed of according to the best 
sanitary regulations. 

Fire. 

Fire plugs are placed at suitable distances apart throughout 
the city. A company of fifty members is ready to respond to 
calls at any moment. There have been but three destructive 
fires ever known on the island. Those of two houses located 
at the corner of Sixth street and Wesley avenue, September 
15, 1883; Patterson's drug store, Asbury avenue below Sixth 
street, October 12, 1884, and the Adams Casino, along the 
boardwalk, at Ninth street, June 12, 1893. ^^^^^ residence of 
A. B. Thomas, Fifteenth street and Wesley avenue, was dam- 
aged to the extent of about ^800 in 1893. 

Lights. 

The city is brilliantly lighted by electricity. Lights of 
2,000 candle power, elevated twenty feet above the ground, 
illuminate the streets at the intersections. The latest improved 
appliances of every kind are used in controlling this magical 
and mysterious agent. Incandescent lights are used in the 
business houses and cottages. 



OCKAN CITY GUIDE BOOK.- 21 



Railroad Facilities. 



An electric railroad went into operation July 4, 1893. The 
tracks extend along the beach from Seventeenth street and Cen- 
tral avenue to First street; thence across the island, in full view 
of the Inlet, to the opposite side, where they terminate at the 
pier of the iVtlantic Coast Company, at Second street, on Great 
Egg- Harbor Bay. Several routes by steam railway are available 
in reaching Ocean City from Philadelphia and New York. The 
West Jersey Railroad, before mentioued, and the Reading Rail- 
road, by way of Atlantic City and Longport, thence by steamer 
across the bay, and the South Jersey, by way of Sea Isle City. 

Atlantic Coast Steamboat Company. 

Among the attractive points of the city the Steamboat pier 
is made prominent by its constant crowd of pleasure seekers. 
Large steamers, supplied with every convenience for the comfort 
of patrons, are constantly plying between Ocean City, Somers' 
Point and Longport. A ride over Great Egg Harbor Bay is a 
source of constant delight. The invigorating, health-giving 
salt breezes may be enjoyed by the most timid and delicate as 
well as the strong and fearless. The quiet waters and the almost 
entire absence of the " swell " render mal de mer an impossi- 
bility. The pier at Longport is visible far out at sea. This 
beautiful resort is situated on a point of land extending between 
the bay and the ocean, and was founded by M. Simpson Mc- 
Cullough, in 1882. The place is laid out on a scale of singular 
magnificence, and the care with which the purchasers of lots 
are chosen will serve to keep it a home-retreat of the highest 
grade. A quiet air of refinement pervades everything, and there 
is an entire absence of the rush and bustle which characterize 
so many seaside resorts. A short ride on the electric cars, in full 
view of the ocean, brings one to Atlantic City, where every 
means of amusement and the finest markets in the State may be 
found. The architecture of Longport is imposing and beauti- 



23 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 

fill, and is in harmony with the entire plan of the citv, which 
promises to rise to a degree of refined elegance not excelled on 
the New Jersey coast. 

Hotels, 

The hotels of Ocean City are well known and popnlar be- 
cause of their absolute merit. In respect to their accomino la- 
tions, furnishings, adequate conveniences, cuisine and ssrvicas, 
they are not surpassed by any of a similar character in cities of 
more pretentions and greater opportunities. These add greatly 
to the reputation of the city as comfortable homes for tourists 
and travellers. 

Hotel Brighton is the oldest hostelrie in the city. Under 
the superior management of the owner, R. R. Sooy, its popu- 
larity is constantly increasing. Every facility for the perfec- 
tion of a seaside home is being realized in its constant improve- 
ments and changes. 

The Emmett is located between the depot and the strand, 
on Eighth street, a most desirable point for all conveniences. 
Miss Mattie Boyle will conduct it as heretofore. Its growing 
patronage speaks much for the future success of this new hotel. 
The Wesley House. This hotel has been thoroughly 
renovated and is under the management of Mrs. V. S. Robin- 
son. Doubtless the success which has heretofore attended her 
duties as a hostess will be but emphasized at this new point. 
The Wesley House will be open all the year. 

The Traymore. This beautiful building has been a 
favorite resort for guests since the first day it opened, two years 
ago. Under the new management of Miss A. C. Creth, widely 
known for her thorough and efficient knowledge of require- 
ments for the comfort and pleasure of patrons, its popularity 
will rapidly increase. Grounds for lawn tennis and croquet are 
among its attractions. 

The Vandalia. The name of the proprietess, Mrs. Joseph 
Burley, at the head of a hotel, means comfort, pleasure and a 
good table. This fact is at once apparent in the desire of 



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OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 23 

guests who have been fortunate enough to visit the Vandalia 
to always return. 

The Illinois. Tliis hotel is open the year round. Good 
beds, an excellent table and prompt service are among the 
factors wliich are constantly increasing its popularity under 
the management of the genial hostess, Mrs. H. D. Canfield. 

Excursion House. Erected especially for the comfort and 
accommodation of the public and located immediately on the 
ocean front is this handsomely painted and decorated structure. 
J. T. Adams, the proprietor, who has done so much toward 
the improvement of the city, is thoroughly alive to the require- 
ments necessary for the comfort and pleasure of visitors, and 
neither trouble nor expense are spared to bring about these 
results. The Excursion House is surrounded on three sides by 
wide verandas and has within its walls a seating capacity for 
five hundred. Its attractions consist of a carrouselle, candy 
kitchen, dining rooms, restaurant and ice cream parlors, shoot- 
ing gallery, bath houses with shower bath and many others 
which space forbids us to enumerate. 

The /\dams' Casino. This building, since its renewal 

from the destructive fire of June 12, 1893, ^^^s undergone many 

I improvements. Its seating capacity is five hundred. Rockers 

' and high armed chairs upon raised platforms contribute to the 

comfort of guests. A carrouselle, candy kitchen, shuflfle 

boards and a shell store are amongr its attractions. 



24 



OCKAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 



The Press. 

In less than one year after the first sale of lots took place a 
marked degree of enterprise was shown by W. H. Boyle & 
Bros., in issuing from their office in the Pioneer Cottage the 
first copy of a newspaper edited or printed in the city, the 
Ocean City Sentinel, April 21, 1881. 

Julv 4, 1884, the Ocean City Standard, R. Fisher, editor 
and proprietor, made its first appearance. 

Following these came another weekly, The South Jersey 
Review and Ocean City Spray, W. H. Fenton, editor and pro- 
prietor. 

December 13, 1892, the initial copy of the Weekly News, 
H. B. Adams, editor and proprietor, was welcomed by the 
public. 

The first daily, and the latest newspaper, was issued from 
the present office of the Ocean City Sentinel, July i, 1893, the 
Ocean City Daily Reporter, R. C. Robinson, editor and pro- 
prietor. 




First M. E. Church. 




Prof. L. R. Thomas, Principal of the Public Schools. 




Public School Building;s. 



OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 25 



Public Schools. 



The Public School Building, three stories high, is centrally 
located. The course of instruction is that taught in cities 
where graded schools have been long established. Prof. L. R. 
Thomas, the principal, is a native of Chester county, Pa., and 
is possessed of high scholastic acquirements. He was graduated 
from the Keystone State Normal School, in 1870, with honors, 
and has since kept constantly abreast of the times in mat- 
ters pertaining to educational advancement and reform in the 
public schools. His work as an instructor had but commenced 
when the late rebellion called his attention to his country's 
need. He served throughout the entire war, held a captain's 
rank, and was twice breveted for gallantry. Prof Thomas was 
engaged for fourteen consecutive years in academic and public 
school work at West Chester, Pa. He was called to Ocean City 
in 1890 to fill the position he now occupies, and immediately 
introduced into the curriculum of the public schools those 
branches necessary to raise the standard of the educational sys- 
tem to a grade equal to that of any in the State. This has been 
most successfully achieved. The first class was graduated in 
1892. The first sessions of the schools of Ocean City were held 
in the rooms of the Association Building. The following teach- 
ers have engaged in the work since then: Annie Bartine, Mattie 
Boyle, Emma Corson, Carlton Godfrey, Emma Veale, Luther 
Corson, Hattie Smith, F. Spaulding, Amy Miller, Eva Moore, 
C. Pryor, Roxanna Corson, Julia Morton, L. R. Thomas and 
Gertrude Price. 

First M. E. Church. 

The society of the M. E. Church was first known as St. 
Peter's. The first person to whom the rite of baptism was ad- 
ministered was S. B. Miller, May 3, 1882. The first marriage 
solemnized was that of Alida S. Goodrich and T. H. Tunni- 
son, November 30, 1882. The pastors in charge have been 



26 ' OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 

Revs. E. B. Lake, W. E. Boyle, W. H. Hoag, C. K. Fleming, 
N. J. Wright, S. Townsend, W. A. Massey and L. O. Man- 
chester. The present incnmbent, Rev. L. O. Manchester, is a 
native of Litchfield, Conn. His ancestors were among the 
first settlers of the States of Connecticut and Rhode Island. 
His early education was received at Wilbraham Academy, 
Massachusetts, under the tutorship of some of the most emi- 
nent educators of the day. In the twenty-first year of his age 
he came to New Jersey and engaged for a short time in teach- 
ing, subsequently entering the ministry and becoming a mem- 
ber of the New Jersey Conference. Rev. L. O. Manchester is 
an earnest, talented minister; the appreciation of this fact is 
shown in the large audiences which attend the church every 
Sabbath and in his well deserved popularity. A beautiful 
church edifice was dedicated x\ugust 31st, 1891. A parsonage 
adjoining the church property was completed shortly after- 
wards. 

Improvements. 

So rapidly have they been made and of such an extensive 
character are the improvements, that it is impossible to enter 
into a description of details. Some idea may be gained by a 
knowledge of the fact that during the winter of '93-4, when 
a financial crisis paralyzed trade throughout the country, 
nearly $2CO,ooo were spent in the erection of cottages. There 
have been times when the City Council has stood appalled at 
the amount of labor demanded by the rapidly growing popula- 
tion for acquired modern facilities, but never for a moment 
have any barriers been insuperable. A review of work already 
accomplished was sufficient inspiration to carry forward the 
work on hand until the city has now reached a point wdiere the 
impetus of its popularity will carry it well forward to its ulti- 
mate position on a peerless vantage ground among seaside re- 
sorts. The city, though prosperous, is in need of additional 
capital, and offers inducements for men of enterprise and wealth 
to locate and make investments, with assurances of almost im- 



OCEAN CITY GUIDE HOOK, 2'] 

mediate and substantial returns; there can be no question but 

that the accession of this class will be attended with profit to 

themselves, as also to the interests of the city. The building 

lots are of ample size to build one large house or two small 
ones, allowing space for alley-ways between, called for by the 

city, thus avoiding solidh- built streets. The prices of these 
lots and the rents charged for cottages or hotels, furnished and 
unfurnished, are very reasonable. The cost of living is low. 
Fruits and vegetables are furnished in great abundance and 
perfection from the neighboring mainland. The liquor traflfic 
is prohibited, a clause in all deeds calls for forfeiture of title 
if the vice is allowed to flourish on the premises. It is doubt- 
less owing to this fact that the summer as well as the perma- 
nent population is drawn from the refined and elevated classes 
of society. In the welcome we extend to the public we present 
to the capitalist a wide field for enterprise; to the artisan, 
work; to the invalid, health; to the artist, the beauty of an 
ever changing landscape, and to the householder, the benison 
of contentment and rest. 



28 OCEAN CITY GUIDK BOOK. 



Bio^itapl^ical SlA;ctcl;^cs. 



Mayor H. G. Steelman. 

Mayor Steelman was born at Weymouth, N. J., and edu- 
cated in the public schools of that town. He came to Ocean 
City in 1888, and immediately engaged in the grocery business 
at 705 Asbury avenue. The building in which he commenced 
was soon too small to meet the requirements of a rapidly grow- 
ing trade, and was removed to the rear of the lot it occupied. 
A larofe buildino- was then erected on the site of the old one, 
second floors are fitted up for a public hall and Council Cham- 
bers and his private offices, and the third floor for lodge rooms. 
Mayor Steelman held the position of City Treasurer and was 
otherwise made the recipient of public confidence previous to 
the time of holding the highest municipal office. As yet, to a 
great extent, the city is in a formative state and new questions 
of policy are continually presenting themselves. The detail 
work is therefore very extensive and can only be appreciated 
by its executive officers. When we take into consideration to 
how great a degree the growth of a city depends upon the 
quality and amount of energy and vitality with which the men 
controlling her destiny must be imbued, we have some idea of 
the confidence reposed in him by his many friends. The bril- 
liant future heretofore predicted for Mayor Steelman has been 
achieved, and we doubt not but that the duties which await 
him in this new office will be fulfilled with the same zeal and 
earnestness which has characterized the past. 




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Q. E. Palen, Ph. B. M. D. 




Dr. Palen's Residence. 




Dr. Palen's Wesley Avenue Cottage. 




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Dr. Palen's Ocean Front Cottages. 



OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 29 



Mayor-elect R. Fisher. 

In the real estate business the fact is especially apparent 
that " Realty is the basis of all security." This basis is found 
in the knowledge and probity of those throngh whom the 
transactions are conducted. In view of this fact, there is prob- 
ably no one in Ocean City possessing more of these qualifica- 
tions than R. Fisher, one of the few pioneer real estate agents 
left. He has been connected with the largest sales of lots 
which have been made on the Island, and his business interests 
have been closely interwoven with the history of the city. 
This knowledge, together with long experience, is an in- 
valuable aid to investors. His office buildings are centrally 
located at the corner of Seventh street and Asbury avenue, and 
his handsome residence at the corner of Seventh street and 
Wesley avenue. 

Mr. Fisher was born in Belfast, Ireland, in 1848, of Scotch- 
Irish parents. He came to America twenty-five years ago and 
has travelled extensively in Europe and the United States. 

With the advantage of talents amounting to genius, and 
with an inherent brilliancy and versatility of mind that rest 
only with the reward of high achievement, Mr. Fisher's con- 
tinued success is established, while no more glowing tribute 
can be paid than that his eminence has been reached by the 
exercise of his own abilities. 



Gilbert E. Palen, Ph. B., M. D. 

Dr. Palen, President of the Niagara Mining and Smelting 
Company, is a member of the Ocean City Association and has 
been its treasurer for a number of years. He invested largely 
in real estate, owns a number of handsome cottages and has 
been a regular summer resident since 1880. He was born at 
Palenville, N. Y. His father, Rufus Palen, was a widely 



30 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 

kiiowr tanner and leather dealer. Dr. Palen first attended 
Bro'' University, going from thence to Yale, where he gradu- 
ated .vith the degree of Ph. B. in tiie famous class of '53. 
He then pursued a medical course at the New York University 
which he subsequently completed at the Albany College, 
Taduating from the latter in 1855 as a doctor of medicine. 
Dr. Palen is an inherent leader in the rugged work of laying 
the foundation of new enterprises and developing interests in 
hitherto unexplored field.s. The spirit of enthusiasm which 
he diffuses into his work is tempered by cool deliberation and 
clear, keen foresight. He also possesses an invaluable attri- 
bute in a determination which submerges the barriers and 
sweeps aways the obstructions which impede his progress to- 
ward success. In early life he obtained a thorough knowledge 
of the tanning business and in 1856, in what was then the 
primeval forests of the mountains of northern Pennsylvania, 
amid the haunts of bear, deer and panther, he, together 
with G. W. Northrop, felled trees, cleared the land and 
built an oak tannery, at the same time laying out the town 
of Canadensis. In partnership with his brother he after- 
wards built tanneries at Tunkhannock, Pa. In i860 he 
married Elizabeth Gould, of Ro.xbury, N. Y. In 1876 he 
entered into partnership with Dr. Starkey, under the firm 
name of Starkey and Palen, the former bringing into the 
concern the perfected compound oxygen system and the 
latter the requisite capital. From this time the business re- 
ceived an impetus which has carried it all over the world. Dr. 
Palen is an active and honored member of M. E. Board of 
Church Extension. He is also a great worker in the cause of 
temperance. His popularity is shown in the fact of his having 
been several times candidate for Mayor and Recorder on the 
Prohibition ticket. He gave his name and labor to a cause in 
which he knew that defeat only could be the present outcome, 
but with a firm faith in the knowledge that these efforts are 
rapidly advancing the work toward the time when the sword 
of legislation shall be turned against the great evil of intem- 
perance. 



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C. riyers, Esq. 




Residence of C. Hyers. 



OCEAN CITY GUIDl'. I'.OOK. 3 1 

Charles Myers, Esq. 

No more eloquent illustration can be given of the apprecia- 
tion of the benison bestowed upon its people by a Republic, 
than in the respect and admiration given to its self-made men. 
'Squire Myers is one of these, and may be seen daily walking 
our streets, and joining with a keen zest in the discussion of 
political or municipal questions. He resides in a beautiful 
home at the corner of Eighth street and Wesley avenue, and 
is a large real estate owner in Ocean City. "By reason of 
strength," he has passed beyond the milestone of the allotted 
time of man nearlv a sufficient number of vears to attain his 
second majority, and yet little trace of age discloses itself in the 
carriage of his well-knit frame or the brilliancy of his mind. 
The 'Squire was born in France, the eldest of seven children. 
His father came to America with his family, but died shortly 
afterwards. Upon the 'Squire, then but a child, devolved the 
responsibility of aiding his mother in the support of the bereft 
family. He obtained employment at Darby, Pa., and then in 
Philadelphia, and was among the newsboys who sold the first 
edition of the Philadelphia Ledger. He learned his trade and 
profession with W. S. Young, of Philadelphia, and was engaged 
with him for twenty-four years, eighteen years of the time in the 
capacity of superintendent. He afterwards engaged in business 
for himself. Forty-eight hours after the firing on Fort Sumter 
he was engaged in forming a military company. This company 
went to the front in the battles of Antietam and Gettysburg, and 
continued its organization till the surrender of Lee. In the 
prime of his manhood he was largely interested in coal oil and 
politics, and was one of Philadelphia's aldermen, and a prominent 
real-estate agent and conveyancer of that city. Deprived of the 
means of the rudiments of an education, and through vicissi- 
tudes in youth which the present generation are unable to 
understand, over apparently insuperable barriers he has won 
his way to success. Shorn of its presence in his own outward 
appearance, he stands to-day amid patriarchal surroundings; 



32 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 

children to the fourth generation listen to reminiscences of his 
youth. His experience and wisdom of mature years lends a 
sparkling light to his rare gifts of genius, as the work of the 
lapidary develops the brilliancy of the diamond. 



John Ryland Kendrick. 

Among the many staunch friends of Ocean City, none are 
more devoted to its interests than Mr. and Mrs. John R. Ken- 
drick, whose handsome Queen Anne cottage, on Wesley avenue 
between Eighth and Ninth streets, recently enlarged and re- 
modeled, is illustrated in this volume. 

They first visited this beach when it was a small struggling 
collection of seashore cottages, but believing in its future, they 
invested liberally in real estate and have done no little in 
attracting friends and investors to its hospitable shores. 

Mr. Kendrick has been for many years past a resident of 
Philadelphia, and specially identified with carpet and uphol- 
stery manufactures, in which that city particularly abounds. 
He publishes The American Carpet and Upholstery Trade, a 
paper of wide influence and decided usefulness in its sphere. 
Mr. Kendrick's prominence in this line has entailed upon hira 
a good deal of statistical and technical writing of a public 
nature. He was engaged in both the tenth and eleventh United 
States censuses and compiled an exhaustive report on "The 
Carpet Industry of Pennsylvania" for Governor Beaver's 
administration. This is found in the " Report of the Secretary 
of Internal Affairs " for the year 1889. 

His last public service was rendered at the Columbian 
Exposition, where he served on the Board of Judges on Awards 
in the Department of Manufacturers. He was the only male 
judge on textiles appointed from the city of Philadelphia by the 
World's Columbian Commission, and served as Vice Chairman 
of the Judiciary Committee while the awards on manufactures 
were in progress. 



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John Ryland Kendrick. 



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Summer Residence of J. R. Kendrick. 



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OCEAN CITY GUIDE J500K. 33 

Both Mr. and Mrs. Kendrick and their cliildren are mem- 
bers of the Baptist Temple, at Broad and Berks streets, in Phil- 
adelphia, and when at the shore they engage heartily in all 
religions and social matters which tend to enhance the charms 
of a summer at the seaside. 

The subject of this notice, though born in Georgia, is con- 
nected with the distinguished New England family of the same 
name, among whom are two uncles. Prof. A. C. Kendrick, D. 
D. , LIv. D., the eminent Greek scholar and founder of Roches- 
ter University; also the late Dr. J. Ryland Kendrick, an elo- 
quent Baptist preacher and scholar of New York State, who 
prior to his death was president of Vassar College, Pough- 
keepsie. This branch of the family descends from Edward 
Kendrick. an opulent merchant, Lord-Mayor of London in the 
time of the " Persecution," and a nephew by marriage of 
Archbishop Cranmer, who perished at the stake. They were 
early located at Poultney, Vermont, in which State their an- 
cestors stood " minute men " on the Northern border during 
the Revolution. From the New Hampshire branch came Anna 
Kendrick, mother of the late Franklin Pierce, President of the 
United States. 

Mr. John R. Kendrick, while assenting to the doctrine of 
heredity, contends that noble ancestry is valuable only so far 
as its virtues are emulated and its vices shunned, and concurs 
with Tennyson that "simple faith," with love for one's fel- 
lows, is a far better boast than Norman blood of a corrupted 
strain. 



Councilman J. F. Hand. 

In all cities, whether inland or on the seaboard, there are 
no more efficient and substantial factors toward their comfort 
and beautv than the work of those engaged in the building 
interests. In growing cities, especially, men who are con- 
versant with architecture and building in a practical sense are 
valuable acquisitions. Councilman Hand is one of these. The 

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34 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 

first work for which he was called to the city was the erection 
of the artistic little cottage, " Holiday." Among the buildings 
which he has erected since are the M. E. Church and Rev. B. 
H. Sanderline's handsome residence and many others whose 
beauty of workmanship at once denotes the builder. Mr. Hand 
was born at Tuckerton, N. J., attended the public schools, but 
finished his education at Pennington Seminary. He is a 
nephew of the late Mrs. S. J. C. Downs, State President of the 
Women's Christian Temperance Union of N. J. He has 
travelled extensively up and down the coast, was engaged by 
the Long Island Railroad Company and also by the United 
States Government to erect buildings. He is now serving his 
first term as Councilman, and is progressive and liberal, firm in 
his convictions and intrepid in his efforts toward crystalizing 
those convictions into such action as shall be for the best 
interest of the city. 



Councilman S. B. Sampson. 

Councilman Sampson was born at Smith's Landing and 
educated in the public schools of Atlantic county. His early 
life is marked by close and quiet attention to all his under- 
takings. He came to Ocean City in 1880 and was the first 
contracting builder to locate on the island. The first house of 
any considerable size, the Bellevue, was built by him for I. B. 
Smith. Councilman Sampson bought the first lots and erected 
a beautiful home on Fourth street, near Asbury avenue, in 
1880. This he is constantly improving and adorning. He was 
for awhile a member of tlie firm of Sampson, Steelman & 
English, but subsequently withdrew and is now conducting 
business for himself He has a thorough practical knowledge 
of his pursuit and has built up his trade upon the merits of his 
own labor. He has been twice elected to the office which he 
now fills. Councilman Sampson is slow in encouraging ques- 
tionable enterprises, never giving his vote until the matter has 



OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 35 

been well considered, thus frequently bringing about tlie result 
of a great saving of the city's money, while every substantial 
improvement at once calls forth his full sanction and aid. His 
effective work has been felt and acknowledged by the coniniu- 
nit>' and has invariably met with approbation. 



Steelman & English. 

The beauty of a city depends largely upon its architecture, 
and to those who design and construct its buildings is due the 
credit of the position it holds in this direction. Among those 
who have done a large amount of the work which adorns the 
streets and avenues of Ocean City is the above firm, the mem- 
bers of which are J. C. Steelmen and E. B. English. These 
young men are well versed in the details and principles of this 
branch of industry and are moving rapidly toward the estab- 
lishing of an extensive and lucrative business. They are pre- 
pared at all times to execute orders with accuracy and prompt- 
ness, coupled with the courtesy which ever marks successful 
business men. Thev were both born and educated in Southern 
New Jersey and were among the early residents of the city. 
Mr. Steelman, the senior member of the firm, is serving a 
second term as City Councilman. He is broad-minded and 
progressive, yet careful and conscientious. In him the people 
have a valuable guardian of their interests and the city an 
official who looks to the future and has the courage to cham- 
pion measures which tend toward her prosperity. 



Councilman Henry Clay Sutton. 

Councilman Sutton was born near the old historic land- 
mark, the Red Lion, dear to the hearts of all Delawarians, 
and located about twelve miles from Wilmington, August 22, 
1849. While yet in his infancy his parents removed to Green- 



36 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 

wood farm, at Sm3'rna, Delaware, where he grew to man's 
estate, receiving the educational advantages of the public 
schools of his day. His natural ability as a railroader was 
early demonstrated, and now, with the advantage of long 
experience, he ranks among the most efficient of the employees 
of the West Jersev Railroad. When verv voung^, he made 
application and secured a position as clerk with the Adams 
Express Company, in Philadelphia, subsequently entering rail- 
road service as train baggage-master, which position he has 
held ever since. Mr. Sutton became a permanent resident of 
Ocean City in 1884, the year of its incorporation. He has 
identified himself with the First Methodist Episcopal Church, 
of which he is an active and honored member. As a citizen, 
Mr. Sutton was fully alive to all those measures which tend 
towards the growth and prosperity of the city. He is thor- 
oughly conscientious, and in the new work which lies before 
him, aided by keen discrimination and fine ability, he will be 
relied upon for honest, earnest conncilmanic labor. 



Postmaster R. H. Thorn. 

Mr. Thorn was born and educated in Frankford, Philadel- 
phia, and became a resident of Ocean City, May 4th, 1885, at 
which time he opened a hardware and furnishing store at the 
corner of Eighth street and Asbury avenue. In 1887, he pur- 
chased two lots adjoining the one he then occupied, and built 
store No. 805 Asbury avenue. In 1890, he bought the stand 
where he commenced business, and in 1891 built another store 
(No. 803 Asbury avenue) between the two already completed, 
together with a dwelling house facing on Eighth street. Thus, 
in less than seven years, from a foundation cautiously and 
firmly laid, has grown one of the most brilliant business enter- 
prises of the city. His large stores contain everything in the 
line mentioned, and are very largely patronized by the summer 
residents in furnishing their cottages, as well as by the local 




Wm. Lake— Surveyor and Conveyancer. 




R. Curtis Robinson. 

lDITOR and PnOPRIETO-l OF THF OCTAN CiTV SENTINEL AND OCEAN CiTY DAILY REPORTEH 



OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 37 

trade. Possessed of keen, demonstrated bnsiness ability, lie 
has risen to the position he now occnpies by his own efforts. 
Public-spirited movements are tendered his endorsement and 
support. Every new project and enterprise calculated to bene- 
fit the community, or prove conducive to the public welfare, is 
aided and encouraged. He has served as councilman, and on 
October loth, 1887, was appointed to the position of postmas- 
ter. He was again appointed to the position he now holds 
September i6th, 1893. Mr. Thorn is most efficiently aided in 
all his work by the faithful and untiring efforts of his wife, a 
daughter of the late E. Smith, recently a large property holder 
in Ocean City. 



yv. Lake, C. E. 

When new land is to be utilized, Nature, in her economy, 
calls forth men best adapted to the work— those fearless of 
heart, strong of arm and skilled in the peculiar craft of a pro- 
cess of evolution which changes it into the streets and avenues 
of a well-planned city. Mr. Lake was born at Bargaintown, 
April 27, 1838. Not satisfied with the educational advantages 
of the day, he pursued a course of study by himself, and at an 
early age was teaching in the public schools. He chose the 
profession of a civil engineer, received an appointment when 
verv young and has successfully followed this calling ever 
since. Mr. Lake has held numerous township offices and in 
1863 was appointed Commissioner of Deeds. In 1875, he was 
appointed Master in Chancery, and the same year elected to the 
office of Justice of the Peace of Atlantic county, which posi- 
tion he held till his removal to Ocean City. His pioneer work 
in this place is best estimated by a knowledge of the fact that 
he has surveyed every foot of the island and examined every 
original title from 1695 down to 1879, at which time it was 
purchased by the Ocean City Association, and has drawn off 
2,000 deeds. Surely, he may be termed one of the city fathers. 
The position which he has attained is an illustration to the 



38 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 

rising generation of the power that lies within one's self" to 
develop the attributes with which Nature has endowed him, 
and bring forth brilliant and lasting results. 



Rush E. Cox. 

In reviewino; the commercial interests and advantaoes of 
Ocean City, one is confronted by many enterprises worthy of 
extended notice and consideration. It is a fact, and one which 
merits more than passing observation, that in this thriving 
resort there are located many establishments whose operations 
would reflect credit upon much larger cities. Again and again, 
in every calling and pursuit, examples are brought before our 
notice of the success of our young men. 

Mr. Cox, son of A. H. Cox, one of the pioneer hotel keepers 
of the city, is one of these examples. He was born in New 
Egypt, N. J., and came to Ocean City December loth, 1880. 
He was then but a boy under the paternal roof, and engaged in 
such work as the peculiar circumstances and surroundings of 
the place called for. He soon entered steamboat service, where 
he was employed but a short time, when he engaged in railroad 
work, in which he was rapidly promoted to the position of 
conductor of a passenger train, which position he held for five 
years on the W. J. R. R. 

April 15th, 1893, ^1^ opened a grocery store in a much- 
needed locality of the city, Twelfth street and Asbury avenue, 
where he is doing a thriving business. Mr. Cox carries a heavy 
stock of only the best groceries, and caters to the demands of 
the public in this direction in the most careful manner. Cour- 
teous and affable in his bearing, together with prompt and 
reliable service, the result can only be success. 



OCEAN CITY GUIDE HOOK. 39 



R. C. Robinson. 

By strict adherence to the line of business marked out, Mr. 
Robinson, editor and proprietor of the Ocean City Sentinel 
and of the Ocean City Daily Reporter is achieving success. 
The latter paper is the first daily ever issued in the city and 
its wide circulation tells of the need felt by the public for a 
newspaper of its kind. Mr. Robinson was born in Atlantic 
county, N. J., in 1S62. His father died when he was nine 
years of age, and he was early thrown on his own resources. 
At sixteen years of age he entered a wholesale dry-goods 
house, but finding the business distasteful he engaged to learn 
the printing business in the Banner ofifice, at Beverly, N. J. 
He then accepted a position with A. L. English, of the Atlan- 
tic Reviezv, Atlantic City. Mr. Robinson was first in the em- 
plov and was then associated with Mr. English in business 
for over six years. During this time he was editor and 
manager of the I\days^ s Landing Record^ and assistant 
editor of the Philadelphia journal Over the Mountains and 
Down by the Sea. He came to Ocean City in 1885, and 
forming a partnership with W. H. Fenton, purchased the 
Ocean City Sentinel^ and in a short time became sole 
proprietor. In 1888 he represented Ocean City in the 
Board of Freeholders of Cape May county. He was ap- 
pointed postmaster in 1889. Upon assuming the duties of 
this position, he immediately set about having the mail 
service extended and the office designated a money-order 
office, succeeding in both. Mr. Robinson is possessed of those 
faculties which constitute the elements of success — hard labor 
and strict attention to whatever line of business in which he 
may be engaged. 



40 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 

H. B. Adams. 

Real estate and insurance business is a most important factor 
in the material prosperity of a community. A casual observer 
can form no conception of the important position held by the 
active, enterprising agent, devoted to the work of buying and 
selling real estate, establishing values and otherwise stimulating 
property-holders to the great improvements it lies within their 
power to make. H. B. Adams is one of this class. The judi- 
cious principles which he upholds in his transactions, the com- 
petency with which he investigates points connected therewith, i 
are securing for him a large and deserved patronage. Mr. 
Adams is also editor and proprietor of the Weekly News^ a paper 
which, though of recent issue, has already a large circulation, 
giving, as the well-directed efforts of a journalist always must, 
an additional and irresistible impulse to the progress and 
development of the city it represents. The popularity of Mr. 
Adams is shown in the fact of his having; been elected to the 
position of City Clerk; to that of Secretary of the Electric \ 
Railway Company, and Director of the Water Works '.Com- 
pany. 

F. P. Canfield. 

Among the numerous instances of successful young men, 
because of enterprising and progressive business principles. 
Ocean City has none who is making more rapid strides than the 
subject of this sketch. F. P. Canfield was born in Springfield, 
111., in i860, but traces his lineage back to the first settlers of 
the State of New Jersey, and is descended from a family noted 
for superior intellectual endowments through a long line of 
ancestors. He was educated at Edwards' School, beneath the 
shadow of the Capitol buildings of his native State, and was 
engaged as a florist for some years afterwards at that place. 
Coming to Ocean City in 1886, he immediately determined to 




Ex=Councilman F. P. Canfield. 




Residence of F. P. Canfield, Fourth and West. 




H. B. Adams. 



Editor and Proprietor Weekly News 




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Residence of Henry Reinhart, Central Ave. near loth St. 



OCEAN CITY GUIDE 15()OK. 4 1 

make it his future home. He is now engaged in a thriving 
real estate business, and has himself invested largely in real 
estate. Mr. Canfield has served as Councilman and while 
broad and liberal in his views was careful and discreet in all 
his movements for the public good. He resides in a beautiful 
cottage at Fourth street and West avenue. 



42 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 



Wrecl^s 



" Oh, ship, afloat on the wandering wave ! 

The heavens are black and the night is dark ; 
The stars are sleeping — no light to save 

The .weary, storm-driven, laboring bark ! 
Vet the winds are shifting, the shadows lifting. 

The dawn comes floating down on the breeze. 
Onward, now, with the calm waves drifting. 

Sailing down through the silver seas ! " 

Following the nature of a continent-building sea, the chan- 
nels about Great Egg Harbor Bar, the treacherous shoals upon 
which incalculable damage has been done to life and property, 
are gradually closing up and new ones forming further out. It 
has not been many years since the salt-water pond, near the 
sand hills between Second and Third streets, was in the path 
of the old ship's channel; the line of high water is distinctly 
marked a number of feet back of the sand hills, by shells and 
drift, the entire length of the island. It seems impossible, 
while listening to the never-ending drama of the winds and 
waves, that we cannot wrest from the ocean some history of the 
havoc it has wrought, but never for a moment do the waters, in 
their ceaseless murmurs or deep-voiced thunders, reveal the 
tragedy of the ship that went down in a solitude so great that 
it was the only object, an infinitessimal speck, that varied the 
waste of waters from its appearance at the dawn of creation. 
Nor do the broken echoes along the shore bear any intelli- 
gence to us of those which, while not recorded, foundered 
in full view of human succor along the shore, powerless to 
reach them save by an appalled vision. As if in mockery 




Rush E. Cox, Grocer. 




Residence of Councilman J. C. Steelman. 



OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 43 

of our desire to discern these mysteries, crushed and bat- 
tened fragments are cast up, and we trace in these characters 
of driftwood as best we may the secret the sea withholds. 
In this unbroken line, strewn with shattered spars, half-pet- 
rified or covered with shells, or, perhaps still bearing the 
mute appeal for help in the tatters of the red flag upon the 
splintered topmast, with portions of taffrail, keel and rudder, 
cordage covered with seaweed, rude, handwrought wooden pins 
and shining copper bolts, broken compasses, sailors jackets and 
ship's furniture, fruits and merchandise from every country and 
nation in the world, fancy is powerless in her wildest flights to 
reach the truth. Slowly the caravels and fellucas of the early 
mariners pass before us in their creeping, timorous course. Of 
these there is little doubt but that the Dolphin, commanded 
bv the dauntless Florentine navigator, Verrazzani, while 
skirting the coast of New Jersey, in 1524, turned her prow to- 
ward the Inlet and entered Great Egg Harbor Bay. The triple 
decked galleon plunges clumsily in her wake and of these the 
Spanish Lagadere with her freight of gold and silver coin 
sank near Great Egg Harbor Inlet. The African slaver sails 
past with her freight of human souls and we watch till she 
passes beyond the line of vision, knowing that the barracks 
and shackles of Perth Amboy will receive the living cargo. 
The low built corsair or lugger of the Moorish pirate steals 
silently along with her swarthy crew and glancing across the 
bay to Somers Point we remember an almost obliterated path 
leading near the old hostelries, that could tell strange tales of 
shipwreck, on out into the fields till it reaches a tiny grave 
yard surrounded by a low stone wall. In the centre stands an 
unpretending monument reared to the memory of Capt. 
Richard Somers, who perished in the famous attempt to rescue 
the crew of the Philadelphia in Tripolitan waters when Alger- 
ine piracy was at its height in the early part of the present 
century, while the lone pine at the Anchoring Point nearby 
marks the spot where lie the bones of one of the most noted 
pirates of our own country. The name of Capt. Somers also 



44 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 

recalls the well-known vessel which became the subject of a most 
thrilling tragedy on the high seas. In quick succession pass 
out through the Inlet the open boats and ketches in which the 
sturdy sons of the Revolution of Cape May and iVtlantic coun- 
ties ventured upon the open sea. The Rainbow, Unity, Enter- 
prise and Skunk, and after dyeing the red coats a deeper crim- 
son, towed one British boat after another into port, the latter 
vessel alone recording nineteen captures. The fate of the brig 
Fame is told, when on the night of February 22, 1781, she 
capsized near Somers Point, and of a crew of thirty-two men, 
twenty-seven succumbed to the sleep of death from exposure 
or drowning. Before the Life Saving Service reached out its 
strong arms to rescue victims of shipwreck, the most noted was 
that of the Perseverance. In 1815, this brig went down with 
thirteen of the ship's company of seventeen and a cargo valued 
at $400,000. A number of relics from this wreck are still in 
existence. The old "Dutch" hull, lying keel upwards on 
Bond's bar, in Great Egg Harbor Bay, bearing the evidence of 
the cause of disaster in its charred timbers, is reported in the 
records of the Coast Guard of the Mediterranean Sea as a Ger- 
man barkentine, loaded with petroleum, which burned in those 
waters; the hull was then driven by storms or drifted with the 
counter current of the Gulf Stream, reported again and again 
by incoming vessels, always holding its inverted position till it 
found a haven on this side of the Atlantic. As late as Febru- 
ary 13th, 1888, a suggestion of the smuggler, or buccaneer, 
comes to us in the mysterious stranding of the Spanish brig, 
Panchito, with her swarthy crew and a cargo of hides and 
logwood. Partly submerged, near the foot of Twentieth street, 
lies the wreck of the Angela Brewer, which came ashore in 
1864, loaded with cotton and molasses, while in close prom- 
imity the hull of the Zetland, wrecked November 2, 1881, 
with a cargo of salt, is fast yielding to the elements. 
A short distance beyond, the Sallie Clark, lumber laden, 
stranded, having lost two of her crew in the disaster. In- 
stinctively we listen for the frantic appeals for help which came 



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OCEAN CITY GUI])K BOOK. 45 

over the waves forty years ago, when the Rhine, with three 
hundred emigrants from the Fatherland, went down, and the 
Elizabeth, with two hundred and fifty Irish emigrants, sank 
ten years later. In these wrecks but one, a babe, while being 
thrown from the vessel to the life boat, was lost. Remains of 
the hull of the fruit laden Dashaway, from Sicily, wrecked in 
i860, lie near the foot of Fifty-second street. The Deborah 
Diverty, coal laden, sank in the night off Corson's Inlet, some- 
time between June 17th and July 3d, 1884, and of the ship's 
company of eight, no message has ever reached human sight or 
hearing. Near the Excursion House, when the tide is very 
low, part of the steamer Utah, wrecked in 1864, laden with 
fine wines and china, is still visible. The Marcia Lewis, coal 
laden, stranded on Great Egg Harbor Bar and went to pieces 
in a few hours September r, 1892. At nearly the same place 
the staunch schooner J. and H. Scull, lumber laden, came up 
on the bar January 18, 1892, and for forty-one days, or until 
February 29th, resisted the fury of the breakers, when she was 
carried up on the main beach, her hull but slightly strained. 
The wreck of the sloop Sallie and Eliza, August 20, 1892, will 
long be remembered by the thousands who thronged the beach 
when the half drowned mate was brought ashore by the Life 
Saving Service and the captain was reported missing, while at 
the same time the yachts Mattie Parker and Lottie stranded. 
April 27, 1894,. the two-masted schooner Charles J. String, 
loaded with fish guano, bound for Milford, Delaware, foundered 
on the bar and sank a few days later. 

" To thee the love of woman hath gone down, 

Dark flow thy tides o'er manhood's noble head 
O'er youth's bright locks and beauty's flowery crown ; 
Yet must thou hear a voice — Restore the Dead ! 

Earth shall reclaim her precious things from thee — 
Restore the Dead, thou Sea ! " 



46 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 



Ixifc-SaviQQ Service. 



" Wouldst thou," — so the helmsman answered, 
" Learn the secret of the sea ? 
Only those who brave its dangers 
Comprehend its mystery ! '' 

The complications of the system of the Life-Saving Service 
are comparatively little known to those living inland. It was 
imperfectly carried on for some years previons to 1872, but 
since that time means are taken every year for its greater per- 
fection, and as it reaches ont its strong arms to aid mariners in 
distress and to preserve property from destruction, the magni- 
tude of its importance can only be estimated by the long marine 
official records of its work. The Atlantic coast is patrolled 
from Maine to Florida; the Gulf of Mexico and the great lakes 
their entire coast. Stations are placed at suitable distances 
apart, furnished with all the necessary appliances for the work. 
From September ist to May ist they are occupied by seven 
life-guards, one extra going on December ist. The other four 
months of the year, the season when few severe storms occur, 
the captain alone remains; and as a large percentage of those 
living on the coast are sailors or fishermen, a volunteer crew 
can be easily secured should it be necessary. The uniform con- 
sists of a navy blue Guernsey, embroidered across the breast 
with the scarlet letters L. S. S. and the name of the station to 
which they belong; navy blue pantaloons, overcoat and cap. 
Around the latter is fastened a ribbon in which is woven in gilt 
letters the words U. S. Life-Saving service. Another cap, worn 



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ill cold or stonily weather, is a woolen skull cap, called the 
" Normandy Fisherman." 

The men as a class are stalwart, well bnilt, and present a 
fine appearance. Watches are kept as on board ship, four hours 
long. Every night at sunset two guards are sent from each 
station, one going north and one south. Each one is met at a 
given point by a guard from the station on either side, with 
whom they exchange checks. When this kind of communica- 
tion is impossible, on account of a bay or an inlet coining 
between two stations, a clock is placed at the end of the beat in 
a wooden post, bored out in the side large enough to receive it, 
where it is secured by an iron plate ; this registers every visit 
made by a guard. At eight o'clock these guards return, and 
two others take their place, who exchange checks or register, 
as do also those of the succeeding watches. Each guard is sup- 
plied with rockets with which to warn vessels that are approach- 
inp- too near the shore and to answer signals of distress. A 
lookout is kept from sunrise to sunset, and every passing vessel 
noted down. A journal is kept of each day's proceedings, 
which is forwarded to Washington. On cloudy or stormy days 
the coast is patrolled during the day as well as night. 

Routine of Duty. 

The guards are required to keep in constant practice. Tues- 
day of each week they go out in the life-boat. This, by a sim- 
ple vet very ingenious contrivance, will bail itself out should 
it become filled with water. Wednesday is flag day. A few of 
the most important of a code of fourteen thousand signals are 
practiced. By this means conversation can be carried on with 
ships far out at sea. Thursday they practice with the breeches 
buoy; this is operated in the following manner: A line is shot 
from a mortar out to the sinking ship. To the end of this line 
is fastened a whip-line, and to this a hawser. A wooden tag is 
fastened to the hawser with directions printed on it, one side in 
French and the other side in English, for making it fast and 



48 OCKAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 

how to assist in working the buoy. As soon as it is secured, 
the guards send the buoy out to the ship; this is a skilfully 
contrived basket in the shape of a huge pair of breeches. A 
passenger steps into them, swings out over the angry waters 
and is hauled quickly to shore, the buov returning to the ship 
in an incredibly short space of time. This is used only when 
it is impossible to reach the vessel in a boat. Friday the 
methods used in resuscitating the drowned are rehearsed. Sat- 
urdav is general cleaning da v. 

Too much praise cannot be lavished on these brave men, 
who in times of extreme peril never falter. No means, how- 
ever daring, are left untried for the rescue of life. The keepers 
of the three stations at Ocean City were all seafaring men 
years before entering the L- S. S. In their travels they have 
visited many strange countries. The valuable and interesting 
information given by them, the courtesy which ever marks the 
deportment of a life-guard, render the visits of our guests to 
the life-saving stations delightfully entertaining. 




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OCEAN CITY GUIDE ROOK. 49 



OFFICSE5S. 



Mayor, H. G. Steelman, office, Central avenue above Eighth 
street. 

Council. 

J. C. Steelman, office, 1259 Asbury avenue. 

J. F. Hand, office, corner Twelfth streetand West avenue. 

S. B. Sampson, office, 305 Fourth street. 

H. C. Sutton, office. Central avenue below Eighth street. 

Clerk, E. A. Burgeois, 726 Asbury avenue. 

Collector and Treasurer, S. vSchurch, office, " Bellevue," cor- 
ner Seventh and Asbury avenue. 

Assessor, R. Ludlam, office, 823 Asbury avenue. 

Freeholder, J. W. Lee, office, Asbury avenue below Seventli 
street. 

Solicitor, H. O. Newcomb. 

Coroner, R. C. Robinson, office, 744 Asbury avenue. 

Marshal, S. Carhart. 

Board of Health. 

President, Dr. J. S. Waggoner, 731 Asbury ave. 
W. Lake, cor. Sixth street and Asbury ave. 
G. O. Adams, Asbury ave. below Ninth street. 
J. Conver, ^^43 West ave. 
E. B. English, 915 Asbury avenue. 
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50 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 

Electric Railway Company. 

President, Rev. E. B. Lake. 
Vice President, W. Lake. 
Secretary, H. B. Adams. 
Treasurer, Dr. G. E. Palen. 

Electric Light Company. 

President, Rev. E. B. Lake. 
Vice President, R. H. Thorn. 
Secretary, W Lake. 
Treasurer, Dr. G. E. Palen. 

Water Department. 

President, Rev. E. B. Lake. 

Sewerage Company. 

President, Rev. E. B. Lake. 

« 

Fire Company. 

President, G. O. Adams; Chief, W. Lake; Foreman, H. Rein- 
hart; Marshal, J. C. Steel man, Trustees, C. A. Campbell, 
J. S. Rush, J. L. Headley, E. A. Burgeois, F. Smith, J. 
F. Hand. 

Board of School Directors. 

N. Corson, R. B. Stites, G. O. Adams. 

Secret Societies. 

Knights of Pythias, 

Junior Order United American Mechanics. 

Yachtmen's Association. 

President, E. B. English. Secretary, M. Lake, 



OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 

Life Saving Stations. 

Ocean City. 

Keeper, Captain J. W. Corson. 
Life Guards — No. i, M. Corson. 

No. 2, T. Godfrey. 

No. 3, J. E. Baner. 

No. 4, P. S. Hand. 

No. 5, W. R. Garrettson. 

No. 6, E. S. Clouting. 

No. 7, M. Jeffries. 

Pecks Beach. 

Keeper, Captain L. Godfrey. 

Life Guards — No. i, A. C. Townsend. 

No. 2, W. Corson. 

No. 3, L. E. Corson. 

No. 4, S. C. Young. 

No. 5, F. Corson. 

No. 6, A. T. Gandy. 

No. 7. E. Soniers. 

Cor sons Inlet. 

Keeper, Captain C. D. Stevens. 
Life Guards— No. i, R. S. Godfrey. 

No. 2, R. W. Clouting. 

No. 3, R. Townsend. 

No. 4, S. Brower. 

No. 5, W. H. Devault. 

No. 6, S. W. Corson. 

No. 7, F. G. Shaw. 



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PlFectoPY of Streets. 



AVENUES RUNNING NORTH AND SOUTH. 



Bay, 

Simpson. 

Haven. 

West. 

Asbui-y. 



Central. 
Wesley. 
Ocean. 
Atlantic. 



STREETS RUNNING EAST AND WEST. 



First. 

Second. 

Third. 

Fourth. 

Fifth. 

Sixth. 

Seventh. 

Eighth. 

Ninth. 

Tenth. 

Eleventh. 

Twelfth. 

Thirteenth. 

Fourteenth. 

Fifteenth. 

Sixteenth. 

Seventeenth. 

Eighteenth. 

Nineteenth. 

Twentieth. 

Twenty-first. 

Twenty-second. 

Twenty-third. 

Twenty-fourth. 

Twenty-fifth. 

Twenty-sixth. 



Twenty-seventh. 

Twenty- eighth. 

Twenty-ninth. 

Thirtieth. 

Thirty-first. 

Thirty-second. 

Thirty-third. 

Thirty-fourth. 

Thirty-fifth. 

Thirty-sixth. 

Thirty-seventh. 

Thirty-eighth. 

Thirty-ninth. 

Fortieth. 

Forty-first. 

Forty-second. 

Forty-third. 

Forty-fourth. 

Forty-fifth. 

Forty-sixth. 

Forty-seventh. 

Forty-eighth. 

Forty-ninth. 

Fiftieth. 

Fifty-first. 

Fifty-second. 



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Adams, H. B., Weekly Nezvs office, 811 i\sbiiry avenue, res. 

Central ave. belaw Ninth st. 
Adams, J. T. , Excursion House. 

Adams, W. W., plasterer, Asbury ave. below Tenth st. 
Adams, G. O. , plasterer, Central ave. below Ninth st. 
Adams, C. E. , carpenter, Central ave. below Ninth st. 
Adams, J. T., Ocean City, N. J. 
Adams, I. G., Ocean City, N. J. 
Adams, E. , Ocean City, N. J. 
Allen & Hughes, Ocean City, N, J. 
Allen, G. W. Prof., Ocean City, N. J. 
Allen E. , Asbury ave. above Fourth st. 
Anderson, M. A., Central ave,, below Ninth st. 
Ang, G. , fisherman, West ave. below Fourth st. 
Asher, E. , Central ave. below Eleventh st. 
Atwood, P. C. , 1233 Central ave. 
Austin, J., carpenter, Asbury ave. below Ninth st. 

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Bamford, A. E. , 443 Asbury ave. 

Baner, M., cor. Sixth st. and Ocean ave. 

Barrows, A. D., cor. Thirty-fourth st. and Asbuiy ave. 

Barr, J. W., cor. Eleventh st. and Central ave. 

Barr, W. J., cor. Ninth st. and Asbury ave. 

Ball, J. B., Ocean City, N. J. 

Bard, E. , Asbury ave. above Fifteenth st. 



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Bartine, D. W., M. D., 717 Wesley ave. 
Bartine, W., 717 Wesley ave. 
Barnett, B. C, Asbury ave. ab. First st. 
Barnett, Jos., Asbury ave. below Tenth st. 
Barnhurst, W., 1612 Asbury av. 
Bardsley, S., 1204 Central ave. 
Bassett, S., 930 Wesley ave. 
Bebee, S., Ocean ave. above Fourth st. 
Bell, E., Ocean City, N.J. 
Bennett, T. C, 818 Asbury ave. 
Benners, A., Ocean City, N. J. 

Bethany S. S., Ocean Rest, cor. Thirtieth st. and Wesley ave. 
Bennett, J. , hauling, cor. Eighth st. and Asbury ave. 
Beckett, h. R., Ocean City, N. J. 
Bingham, B. C. , Simpson ave. below First st. 
Birchall, W., cor. Fifth st. and Wesley ave. 
Bisbee, F. i\.. Rev., West ave. above First st. 
Bilbrough, J., Ocean City, N.J. 
Borie, C. , Asbury ave. below Fourth st. 

Boyle, Mrs. W. E., "The Emmett," cor. Eighth st. and Cen- 
tral ave. 
Borrodaile, J. C, Bay ave. below First st. 
Boothroyd, J. A., Ocean ave. above Seventh st. 
Bowen, C. , cor. Fourth st. and Wesley ave. 
Bourgeois, E. A., City Clerk, cor. Ninth st. and Central ave. 
Bourgeois, G. A., builder, 420 Central ave. 
Bourgeois, A., builder, 420 Central ave. 
Breckley, G. M., Sr., Central ave., below Eighth st. 
Breckley, G. M., Jr., fish market, Asbury ave. above Eighth st. 
Breckley, L. , painter, cor. West ave. and Twelfth st. 
Briggs, J., plasterer, 1127 West ave. 
Briggs, R., 1127 West ave. 

Brower, J., painter, store, Asbury ave. above Seventh st. 
Brower, J., cor. Third st. and Central ave. 
Brown, T. J., Ocean City, N. J. 
Brown, T. , Central ave. below Thirteenth st. 



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Brown, A., cor. Tenth st. and Central ave. 

Bridgewater, W. E., Oeean City, N.J. 

Briscoe, C. T. , cor. Sixth st. and Ocean ave. 

Brown, J., West ave. below Fonrth st. 

Bryan, J. T. , 1249 Asbnry ave. 

Brucker, E. , cor. Tenth st. and" Central ave. 

Burroughs, R. , Ocean City, N. J. 

Burley, J. Vandalia, Central ave. above Eighth st. 

Burley, A., carpenter, cor. Fourteenth st. and West ave. 

Burley, S., Asbury ave. below Twelfth st. 

Burt, J,, Wesley ave. below Ninth st. 

Burrell, W. H., Rev., Ocean City, N.J. 

Burnley, C. W., Rev., 924 Wesley ave. 

Burleigh, E. W., Ocean City, N.J. 



Campbell, C. A., store and res., 813 Asbury ave. 

Campbell, E. B., Eighth st. below West ave, 

Canfield, J. F., Rev., "Illinois," cor. Sixth st. and Asbury ave. 

Canfield, H. D., " Illinois," cor. Sixth st. and Asbury ave. 

Canfield, F. P. , Fourth st. and Haven ave. 

Canfield, H., Illinois, cor. Sixth st. and Asbury ave. 

Carson, J. R. , 1205 Central ave. 

Carson, R., Asbury ave. above Twelfth st. 

Carhart, S. , policeman, Asbury ave. above Tenth st. 

Champion, F. E. , coal and ice, 634 x^sbury ave. 

Champion, I., rest, and res., cor. Seventh st. and Asbury ave. 

Champion, J., builder, Vandalia, 725 Central ave. 

Champion, Q., painter, 444 Asbury ave. 

Chance, J. C. , Asbury ave., above First st. 

Chandler, H. D., 922 Wesley ave. 

Chew, W. , carpenter, West ave., above Thirteenth st. 

Chew, N., "Lafayette," Thirteenth st. and Central ave. 

Christ, A. E. , Central av. below Sixth st. 

Christian, J. B., Ocean City, N. J. 



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Clark, J. E. , cor. Seventeenth st. and West ave. 

Clark, J. H., M. D., Central ave. below Ninth st. 

C^^awell D. , cor. Seventeenth st. and Asbury ave. 

Cielland, N. C, 822 Wesley ave. 

Clifton, J., plasterer, Simpson ave. below Second st. 

Clinton, E. T., 634 Central ave. 

Collins, S., 1408 West ave. 

Conver, J., tinsmith, 623 Asbury ave. 

Conver, H. L- , tinsmith, Asbury ave. above Seventh st. 

Conver, S. , tinsmith, Asbury ave. above Seventh st. 

Coleman, R. , Ocean Ciity, N. J. 

Corson, M,, life guard, Ocean Ave. above Seventh st. 

Corson, C, meat market, Asbury avenue above Eighth st. 

Corson, N., builder, 653 Asbury ave. 

Corson, L., life guard, West ave. below Twelfth st. 

Corson, Y., store and res. 721 Asbury ave. 

Corson, J. M., Capt. L. S. S. 

Corson, O., painter, 721 Asbury ave. 

Corson, J. I. , Rev. , cor. Fifth st. and Central ave. 

Corson, F. F., M. D., Ocean City, N. J. 

Corson, J. M., 1632 Central ave. 

Corson, E., 745 Asbury ave. 

Corson, L. , builder, " Vandalia," 725 Central ave. 

Cowperthwaite, S. S. E., 1220 Central ave. 

Cotton, A., 453 Asbury ave. 

Cdx, a. E. , Asbury ave. below Eighth street. 

Cax, L. , expressman, Asbury ave. below Eighth st. 

Cox, R. E., store and res., cor. Twelfth st. and Asbury ave. 

Coxey, J. C. , cor. Fourteenth st. and Asbury ave. 

Cranshaw, R., Asbury ave. below Fourteenth st. 

Creth, A. C, "Traymore," cor. Ninth st. and Wesley ave. 

Crispin, J., 749 Asbury ave. 

Cross, T. B., Asbury ave. above Tenth st. 

Cross, C. , Asbury ave. above Tenth st. 

Crouse, J. W., cor. Fifth st. and Atlantic ave. 

Crouse, H., cor. Seventh st. and iVsbury ave. 

Curry, W. B., Central ave. above Fifth st. 



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Darbey, F. E., 822 Asbury ave. 

Dalryinple, F. , Ocean City, N.J. 

Dallett, H. , Ocean City, N. J. 

Davis, M. D., Wesley ave. below Ninth st. 

Davis, J. H., Atlantic ave. below Fourth st. 

Davis, W. A., M. D., cor. First st. and Central ave. 

Davis, N., M. D., cor. First st. and Asbury ave. 

Davis, J. T. , cor. First st. and Asbury ave. 

Dawes, E., Asbury ave. below Twelfth st. 

Demaris, iV., Seventh st. , near Asbury ave. 

Denn, C, Asbury ave. below Fourteenth st. 

Dixon, J. , Central ave. above Fourth st. 

Dixon, S. , cor. Eighth st. and Central ave. 

Dobbins, G. L., Ocean City, N. J. 

Donaldson, E. , Asbury ave. below Ninth st. 

Donahue, D. , Asbury ave. below Fourteenth st. 

Downs, J. O., 808 Central ave. 

Downs, J., Asbury ave. above Seventh st. 

Doughty, C. , 431 Asbury ave. 

Doughty, J., Ocean City. 

Ebert, C. L., Asbury ave. below Eighth st. 
Eddowes, T. , 1414 Asbury ave. 

Edwards, C. E., D. D. S., " Strand," cor. Ninth st. and Wes- 
ley ave. 
Edwards, R. W., " Strand," cor. Ninth st. and Wesley ave. 
Edwards, A., station agent W. J. R. R. 
Eddy, C. v.. Fourth st. and Atlantic ave. 
Elliott, W. R., 714 Asbury ave. 
Ellison, J, v., 604 Wesley ave. 
Emerson, W. B., 1606 Asbury ave. 
Emley, G., 642 Central ave. 



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English, F. , 1220 Central ave. 

English, J., "Traymore, " cor. Ninth st. and Wesley ave. 

English, E. B., builder, 915 Asbury ave, 

English, J. A., Fourth st. and Wesley ave. 

Esher, E. H., 162 ) Asbury ave. 

Erwin, A. F., Ocean City, N.J. 

Eves, M., Ocean City, N. J. 

Everingham, G. , 827 Asbury ave. 

Earner, C, Asbury ave. above Tenth st. 

Faunce, M. , Asbury ave. above Fourteenth st. 

Fithian, F. R., Ocean City, N. J. 

Fletcher, M., 117 Asbury ave. 

Fletcher, R. , painter, West ave. below Eleventh st 

Fogg, A. G., Wesley ave. and Seventh st. 

Fortiner, G. R., M. D., "Holiday," 809 Wesley ave. 

Foulds, H., cor. Fourth st. and Ocean ave. 

Fisher, R. , real estate, cor. Seventh st. and Asbury ave. 

Franklin, P. A. H. , 219 Wesley ave. 

G 

Gallagher, D., " Eafayette," cor. Thirteenth st. and Cent'l. ave. 

Gandy, A. T., lifeguard, Thirty-fourth street. 

Gandy, J. G., 745 Asbury ave. 

Gandy, O. M. , 745 Asbury ave. 

Garwood, S. P., carpenter, 418 Wesley ave. 

Garrettson, W. R., life guard, 831 Asbury ave. 

Garrison, S. O., Rev., 1658 Central ave. 

Gerlach, H., cor. Sixteenth st. and Asbury ave. 

Getty, M., 640 Central ave. 

Gibb, W., 825 Asbury ave. 

Gill, T. C, cor. Seventh st. and Wesley ave. 

Gilbert, A. G. , painter, Asbury ave. above Third. 

Gluchert, R., Asbury ave. below Fourteenth st. 



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Godfrey, W., 629 Asbury ave. 

Graham, F. R., M. D., cor. Tenth st. and Wesley ave. 

Grace, T., Ocean City, N. J. 

Graw, J. B., D. D., Ocean City, N. ]. 

Griffith, R. L., cor. Seventh st. and Central ave. 

Griffith, A. E., M. D., cor. Sixteenth st. and Central ave. 



Hand, J. F., Councilman, cor. West ave. and Twelfth st. 

Hand, P. S., life guard, 1213 West ave. 

Hann, S. H. Rev., Ocean City, N. J. 

Hallinger, D. B. Capt., Ocean City, N. J. 

Hayes, W. H., cor. Fourth st. and Ocean ave. 

Hayday, G. , Ocean City, N. J. 

Hagle, W., Asbury ave. below Sixteenth st. 

Haines, H. S., Ocean City, N. J. 

Hayes, N., carpenter, Asbury ave. below Eighth st. 

Headley, H., Asbury ave. above Eighth st. 

Headly, L., West ave. below Twelfth st. 

Heustis, C. H., editor Philadelphia Inquirer, 708 Central ave. 

Heisler, H., "Strand," cor. Ninth st. and Wesley ave. 

Henderson, J. C. Capt., 447 West ave. 

Hess, U. Y., West ave. below Twelfth st. 

Hewitt, J. P., Central ave. above Seventh st. 

Hillman, J. P., Asbury ave. below Twelfth st. 

Hickey, D. W., conductor W. J. R. R. 

Hoffinan, B., engineer, 1241 Asbury ave. 

Howell, ]\Iisses, Central ave. and Ninth st. 

Hoffstetter, G., 1209 Central ave. 

Holland, J. M., cor. Fifteenth st. and Asbury ave. 

Hoopes, E. D., Ocean ave. above Eighth st. 

Horn, G. L., 226 Wesley ave. 

Houck, W., Capt, Wesley ave. above Sixth st. 

Huckle, W., Rev., 602 Wesley av. 

Hudson, D., Ocean City, N. J. 



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Husted, A. E., Ocean City, N. J. 
Hunter, T. , Ocean ave. above Second st. 
Hutchinson, J. H., Rev., Ocean City, N.J. 
Hughes, W. R. , Sixth St., east of Westerly ave. 
Hyde, A. C, Ocean City, N. J. 



Ingersoll, B., carpenter, Ocean City, N. J. 
Iszard, J., M. D., Ocean City, N. J. 



Jeffries, J. H., captain, 347 West ave. 

Jeffries, J. B., captain, 347 West ave. 

Jeffries, M., life guard, Asbury ave. above Seventh st. 

Jeffries, G. , captain, 347 West ave. 

Jenkins, J., M. D. , Central ave. below Eleventh st. 

Jackson, M., laundress, 326 West ave. 

Johnson, J., plumber, Asbury ave. below Seventh st. 

Jones, W., 437 x\sbury ave. 

Joseph, A., Ocean City, N. J. 



Kalbach, H., 1057 West ave. 

Kendrick, J. R., 820 Wesley ave. 

Kenney, T., " Adams' Casino," cor. Ninth st. and Boardwalk. 

Keating, C. J., Central ave. below Nineteenth st. 

Keyser, A., Asbury ave. above First st. 

King, C. , Asbury ave. below Fourth st. 

Krouse, G., 305 Central ave. 

Krouse, H. , 305 Central ave. 

Knorr, A. C. , 818 Asbury ave. 

Kuder, O. H., 911 Asbury ave. 

Kynett, A. G. , Rev., 1233 Central ave. 



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Kyiiett, A. J., Rev., 1229 Central ave. 
Kynett, H. H., M. D., 1225 Central ave. 



Lake, E. B., Rev., cor. Fifth st. and Wesley ave. 

Lake, S. W., Rev., Ocean City, N. J. 

Lake, J. E., Rev., Ocean City, N. J. 

Lake, W. , real estate, cor. Sixth st. and Asbury ave. 

Lake, D. E. , bnilder, 1628 Asbury ave. 

Lake, M. , Capt. , painter, 450 West ave. 

Lake, H., 413 Fifth st. 

Lake, T. R., Asbury ave. below Fourteenth st. 

Lake, W. E., Prof., Ocean City, N. J. 

Lake, H. Y. , bookkeeper, Association Offices. 

Lake, H. H., street car conductor. Ocean City, N. J. 

Lake, C. P., street car conductor. Ocean City, N. J. 

Lancirica, J., "Wesley House," Eighth st. and Wesley ave. 

Langley, G. B., Ocean City, N. J. 

Lee, G. W., Ocean City, N. J. 

Lee, L, Capt., 939 Asbury ave. 

Lee, J. W., Capt., Asbury ave. below Seventh st. 

Lee, L. , dressmaker, 1059 West ave. 

Lennig, G. G. , Simpson ave. below First st. 

Lewallen, J., barber, Asbury ave. below Seventh st. 

Linn, J., 324 Central ave. 

Livezey, J., cor. Seventh st. and Central ave. 

Lippincott, Asbury ave. below Fourteenth st. 

Loder, E. B., cor. Twelfth st. and Central ave. 
Lonabaugh, J. E., Ocean City, N. J. 
Ludlam, R., assessor, 823 Asbury ave. 

M 

MacMullen, W. Rev., cor. Seventh st. and Wesley ave. 
Manchester, L. O. Rev. , Central ave. above Eighth st. 



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Manchester, F. , Central ave. above Eighth st. 

Manship, M., 1127 West ave. 

Mahoney, D., 1643 West ave. 

Mapps, W. R., 1416 Asbury ave. 

Marter, H. H., 934 Asbury ave. 

Massey, W. A. Rev., Ocean City, N. J. 

Marshall, A., 712 Ocean ave. 

Matthews, C, Ocean City, N. J. 

Matthews, J., Wesley ave. above Eighth st. 

Matthews, H. M., Wesley ave. below Seventh st. 

McAllister, J. C. , Asbury ave. above First st. 

McAleese, J., 1409 Asbury ave. 

McCullough, J. B. Rev., Wesley ave. above Seventh st. 

McGuire, J. H., Wesley ave. above Eighth st. 

McFadden, J. P., 1212 Central ave. 

McCorkle, J. N., cor. West ave. and Twelfth st. 

Mecke, C. W., Asbury ave. above Fourth st. 

MeGargee, G. N., 825 Wesley ave. 

Mitchell, W., Ocean City, N. J. 

Miller, P. Capt. 726 Asbury ave. 

Miller, W. Capt., 726 Asbury ave. 

Miller, S. B., carpenter, 733 Central ave. 

Miller, C. G. , engineer, W. J. R. R., 1640 Asbury ave. 

Moore, G. P., builder, 835 Asbury ave. 

Moore, E. , painter, 835 Asbury ave. 

Moore, M., slate roofer, 835 Asbury ave. 

Moore, D. , Asbury ave. above Fifteenth st. 

Moore, H. , Ocean ave. above Seventh st. 

Morey, J. K., carpenter. Central ave. below Eighth st. 

Morgan, J., Asbury ave. above Seventh st. 

Morris, A., 404 Asbury ave. 

Morris, E., Asbury ave. below Eighth st. 

Morris, J. B., fisherman, 727 West ave. 

Morton, J. C. , cor. Eighth st. and Asbury ave. 

Mortimore, J. A., West ave. above Fifteenth st. 

Muir, D. S. , cor. Fourth st. and Wesley ave. 



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Murdoch, J., 825 Asbiiry ave. 

Murdoch, P., 806 Asbury ave. 

Myers, C. , cor. Eighth st. and Wesley ave. 

N 

Nabb, C. F., 756 Asbury ave. 

Nabb, J. C, 756 Asbury ave. 

Nagle, C, Ocean City, N. J. 

Neff, J. R., Ocean City, N. J. 

Nelson, A., " Ocean City House," Asbury av. above Eighth st. 

Nicholson, W. S. , Central ave. below Eleventh st. 

Newcomb, H. O. , City Solicitor, Ocean City, N. J. 

Newkirk, B., brakesman W. J. R. R. , 'Cor. Eighth st. and 

Asbury av. 
Noble, G. L., Wesley ave. above Eighth st. 

O 

O'KelL J. R., Ocean City, N.J. 



Palen, G. E., M. D., 825 Wesley ave. 

Faxon, M. , cor. Sixth st. and Wesley ave. 

Parker, R. M., Central ave. below Fourth st. 

Parrish, D. H., Ocean City, N. J. 

Parris, D., Wesley av. below Eighth st. 

Pennock, A. H., cor. Fourteenth st. and Central ave, 

Peddrick, C. H. , 822 Asbury ave. 

Pickering, E., Asbury ave. above Fourth st. 

Pierce, O., Ocean City, N. J. 

Price, J. T. " Ocean City House," 717 Asbury ave. 

Price, B. D., Atlantic ave. above Fourth st. 



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Raiick, A. B., 708 Asbury ave. 

Rapp, R., Central ave. above First st. 

Rapp, J. V. R., Central ave. above First st. 

Rapp, Y., 815 Asbnry ave. 

Radcliff, J. Y. , 749 Asbury ave. 

Reaney, A. W., 409 Fifth st. 

Reinhart, H., engineer W. J. R. R., Central ave. above Tenth st. 

Reinhart, C, Ocean City, N. J. 

Reed, H., M. D., cor. Eighth st. and Asbury ave. 

Reemer, J. , Ocean City, N. J. 

Rice, J. L. , 1213 Asbury ave. 

Risley, L. , Capt. , cor. Seventh st. and Central ave. 

Risley, W., Capt., Asbury ave. above Fourth st. 

Risley, D. Capt., 711 Central ave. 

Riley, J. E., Asbury ave. below Fifteenth st. 

Riley, J. E., cor. Twelfth st. and Asbury ave. 

Roller, L. , 1419 Asbury ave. 

Roberts, M. F., Central ave. below Ninth street. 

Roberts, J. R. , 604 Wesley ave. ^ 

Robinson, J., 726 Asbury ave. 

Robinson, R. C. , office, 744 Asbury ave. 

Robinson, V. S., "Wesley House," cor. Eighth st. and 

Wesley ave. 
Robinson, A. S., Ocean City, N. J. 
Rose, J. B., Ocean City, N. J. 
R\ish, J. S., cor. Eleventh st. and Central ave. 



Salter, J. G. , cor. Fourteenth st. and Asbury ave. 

Sallada, W., 215 Asbury ave. 

Sampson, S. B., builder, 305 Fourth st. 

Sampson, D., tinsmith, Asbury ave. above Fourth st. 



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Sanderlin, B. H., Wesley ave. below Eighth st. 

Sanderliii, C. F., Wesley ave. below Eighth st. 

Schenck, E., 656 West ave. 

Schenk, J., barber, 711 Asbury ave. 

Schermerhorn, C. H., 1237 Central ave. 

Schreiner, W. H., Central ave. below Eleventh st. 

Schuff, J., baker, cor. Asbury ave. and Seventh st. 

Schurch, S., " Bellevue," cor. Asbury ave. and Seventh st. 

Schmitt, E., cor. Tenth st. and Asbury ave. 

Scull, J. C. , carpenter, 727 Asbury ave. 

Scull, A., milkman, 727 Asbury ave. 

Scull, A. D. , builder, Central ave. above Seventh st. 

Scott, T. , Wesley ave. above Eleventh st. 

Scattergood, S. H. , Central ave. below Sixth st. 

Shaw, T. E., cor. Fifth st. and Central ave. 

Sharp, A. D., hackman, no Asbury ave. 

Sharp, C. B., carpenter, no Asbury ave. 

Sharp, E. J., carpenter, Asbury ave. below First st. 

Sharp, W., carpenter. West ave. above Second st. 

Sharp, S. W., blacksmith, 411 Fifth st. 

Sharp, J., Asbury ave., below Second st. 

Shields, — ., West ave. below Sixteenth st. 

Schriver, W. , 122 1 Asbury ave. 

Simmons, T. , Ocean City, N. J. 

Smith, E. S., store and res., 1140 Asbury ave. 

Smith, H., Asbury ave. above Seventh st. 

Smith, J. W., store, 705 Asbury ave. 

Smith, B. R., painter, 1046 Asbury ave. 

Smith, R. M., Ocean City, N. J. 

Smith, F., milkman. West ave. above Fourth st. 

Smith, E., Asbury ave. above Fourth st. 

Smith, H. D., 733 Central ave. 

Smith, N. T., Ocean City, N. J. 

Somers, E., captain, 424 West ave. 

Snow, — . , Central ave., below Eighth st. 

Smalley, C. F. , Ninth st. and Boardwalk. 



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Snyder, F., Asbury ave. above Eighth st. 

Sooy, R. R., " Brighton," Seventh st. and Ocean ave. 

Sooy, N., West ave. below Fourth st. 

Souder, L., 413 Fifth st. 

Stewart, W. C, 626 Central ave. 

Steynmyer, J., 221 Asbury ave. 

Stokes, E. C, cor. Fifth st. and Central ave. 

Stroubel, J. C, Asbury ave. below Eleventh st. 

Stearn, C. B. , Wesley ave. above Eleventh st. 

Steelman, H., cor. Fourth st. and Asbury ave. 

Steelman, H. G. , Mayor, Central ave. above Eighth st. 

Steelman, J. C, Councilman, 1259 Asbury ave. 

Steelman, M., 911 Asbury ave. 

Still, J., West ave. below Ninth st. 

Still, L. , West ave. above Fourth st. 

Stites, R. B., lumber, 759 Asbury ave. 

Stonehill, W., plasterer, 1159 Asbury ave. 

Sutton, H. C, Councilman, Central ave. below Eighth st. 



Taggart, J., 12 12 Central ave. 

Taylor, S. B., 1249 Asbury ave. 

Thatcher, J. W., M. D., 728 Ocean ave. 

Thatcher, J., cor. Thirteenth street and Asbury ave. 

Thegan, W., Central ave. above First st. 

Thomas, J., 1228 Asbury ave. 

Thomas, L. R. Prof., Wesley ave. above Eighth st. 

Thomas, A. B., cor. Fifteenth st. and Asbury ave. 

Thompson, R. M., Simpson ave. below First st. 

Thorn, R. H., store and res., cor. Eighth st. and Asbury ave. 

Thorn, T. J., Asbury ave. below Eighth st. 

Tilton, C. M., Bay ave. above Fourth st. 

Townsend, A. C, Thirty-fourth st. and Wesley ave. 

Tweedale, S., Rev., Asbury ave. below Fourteenth st. 

Turpin, J. B., Rev., Asbury ave. below Fourteenth st. 

Tuttle, C. P., D. D. S., Asbury ave. above First st. 



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Vangilder, H., 1419 Asbnry ave. 

Voss, J., Central ate. below Seventh st. 

Waggoner, J. S., M. D., store and res., 731 Asbnry ave. 

Walton, B. F., West ave. below Fourteenth st, 

Warner, F. B., carpenter, 1428 Asbnry ave. 

Watson, C. H., engineer. West ave. above Eleventh st. 

Wallace, S., Central ave. below Eleventh st. 

Warner, L. , West ave. below Fourth st. 

Wert, C. M., store and res., 713 Asbnry ave. 

Wert, A., M. D., Ocean City, N. J. 

Weston, E. C, D. D. S., Ocean City, N. J. 

Whitaker, W. C, 1230 Asbnry ave. 

Whitesides, F. R., 1236 Asbnry ave. 

Wick, C, 820 Wesley ave. 

Winters, W. R., Ocean City, N. J. 

Willets, J. S. , captain, cor. Seventh st. and Central ave. 

Willets, W. , cor. Seventh st. and Ocean ave. 

Willets, S., West ave. above Seventh street. 

Williams, T. P., Asbury ave. above F. 

Williams, C. J., 423 Asbury ave. 

Wilcox, J. N., 842 Central ave. 

Willoughby, W. , West ave. above First st. 

Witson, W. D., Ocean City, N. J. 

Wimer, T. B. , Ocean City, N. J. 

Wilson, W., Ocean ave. below Eighth st. 

Wood, H. M., cor. First st. and West av. 

Woodward, O. H., Asbnry ave. above Fourth st. 

Woodhull, S. C, Ocean City, N. J. 

Wolf, J., West ave. above Tenth st. 

Woldford, J. , Asbury ave. above Seventh st. 



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OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 



White, J. M., cor. Eighth st. and Asbury ave. 
Wylie H., Central ave. below Thirteenth st. 

Zeigler, E., 717 Central ave. • 

Zane, W. S. Rev., 1208 Asbury ave. 




OCEAN CITV GUIDE BOOK. 69 

DR. GEO. R. FORTINER, 

HOLIDAY COTTAGE, 

No. 809 Wesley Avenue, Ocean City, N. J. 



OFFICE HOURS :-Until lO A. M. 2 to 3 P. M. 6 to 8 P. M. 



Wesley House, 



Established 1881 



WITHIN A SQUARE OF THE BEACH. 
Thoroughly Benovated, under entirely new management. 

OPE'V A.L3L. the: YEAR. 

FiiVEST A.c;coM:M:or>j«LTio]VS. 

MRS. V. S. ROBINSON, 

Cor. Eighth St. and Wesley Ave., Ocean City, N. J. 



|lilaiiiii'l!e!iiflo,9llisi.illieBoa[iiwalk 

FIVE SHUFFLEBOARD TABLES. 
CANDY KITCHEN, CAROUSELLE. 

425 fiockiog Chairs and High Afm Chaifs on Raised Platfofm 

FOR THE ACCOMMODATION OF GUESTS. 

Thoroughly ventilated and brilliantly illumi?iated. 

SHELL STORE A.DJOI]SriNa. 

THE MOST POPULAR EESORT ALONG THE BOARDWALK. 



70 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 

I NVARIABLY ^y^^ assortments of 

Seasonable Dry Goods 

To be found on our many counters are 

More Extensive, More Varied, 

More Comprehensive, More Moderate (Priced, 

Than those shown in any other single house in America. 



Sample! and**Prices. oIf3WDflflp & UOIlllGri Illustrated Catalogue. 



Market St., Eighth St., Filbert St., 

B. R. SMITH & SONS, 

The Pioneer Paper Hangers, 

Decorators, Grainers and . 

Sign Writers of Ocean City. 



A large and varied stock of 
WALL PAPER and DECORATIONS 

on hand at popular prices. 



All WoPk Afti^ticallij Done, and All W/oflc (guaranteed. 
B. R. SMITH S. SONS, 

1046 Asbiiry Aveni^e, Ocean City, N. J. 



OCKAX CITY GUIDE BOOK. 7I 

Robert Fisher, 

^^^^, Real Estate and 

TheT^IQ]]^^]!^ Insurance 

Agent and Broker, 

Convefancef, Cofimiissiooef of Deeds I Holaiy Public 



Can supply imrchasers with desirable investments at all times. 
Ocean front Cottages and Hotel Sites a specialty. Parties seeking to 
get hold of large plots for future development can be accommodated. 
Lots for sale on club or syndicate plan. Rents and Renting. 



life: and 
FIRE - - - 



Insurance 



Given careful attention, and the utmost security guaranteed 

in every department. 



on rsT:.?.^";:'" „e. Seveill St.l m Ave., Ocean Citj . 



72 



OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 



E. H0W4BB TEOII 



D 



DEALER IN 



hmlm, Gai'petg and Matting 



5 



HARDWARE AND CUTLERY, 

STOVES, HEATERS AND RANGES 

...Crockery and Glassware... 

IN . FACT . EVERYTHING . NECESSARY . TO . THE . FURNISHING 

OF . A . HOUSE. 






You will find all goods 

as represented, 

And prices as low as any, 

quality considered. 


* 



»""""i*i^X0m05llSBURyAVEB 



B. 



Goods delivered free of charge. 



OCKAN CITY GUIDK 15COK. 73 

Cor. Eighth and Central Ave. 



NEW HOUSE 

NEW FURNITURE. 



OPEN ALL THE YEAR. Special Rates for the Season. 
DELIGHTFUL LOCATION. ..." 

TERMS: S1.50 and $Z per day. 58, 39 and S10 per week. 

MISS MATTIE A. BOYLE, Proprietress. 



W. STONEHILL. G. O. ADAMS, 

Plasterers and Bricklayers. 



SXONEHILU & ADAMS, 

Plastering, Range Setting, Bricklaying, etc. 

^11 ^ork in ^aAon ^inc promptly ^ttcndcd to. 
OCEAN CITY, N. J. 



S. W. SHARP, 

In rear of Water Works Building, 

WEST AVENUE BELOW TENTH STREET, 

OCEZJ^ror city, PflTE^AT JERSEY. 



-ALSO 



C3-. I=. JsA 00:Eij'E2, 

ArcMtect and Buildei', 



Best Roofing Slate Constantly on Hand. 

SS5 Asb-axy A-o-e., Ocean City, IT. J. 



74 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 

READING RAILROAD 

"The Royal Route to the Sea." 

""'^ rrr ^'"^ PHIUBELPHIUNO ATLANTIC Cin, 



The Famous Fast Flyers always on Time. 
Carry their Passengers Safely and Surely between 

PHILADELPHIA, 



CHESTNUT ST. WHARF 
Ij OR SOUTH ST. WHARF. 



AND THE DEPOT 
THE VERY CENTRE 



'Sf i\TLAWTid City 



A FEiTiRE OF TBIS LINE IS IIS HURD-CML MMOTIKES. 



IsTO SIsdlOICIE! I ' 

ISTO SOOT! SPEED. 



ONLY DOUBLE-TRACK LINE. 
SAFETY. 

Two Stat ons Philadelphia. Six Stations in Atlantic City. 



The Coaches composing the " FLYERS" are new and of the latest and most 

elegant designs. The Pullman Drawing-room and Buffet 

Parlor Cars are models of palatial luxury. 



OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 



J. T. NABB & SON, 



75 



c^f^ l^teum Suhon.. 



756 Asbury Ave. 

Near the Depot. 



Tropical Fruits, Pure, Fresh Confectionery. 



Coach and Express Office Calls answered 

with promptness day and night. 

Baggage delivered to any part of the City. 



A COMPLETE LINE OF.... 

Fine Stationery. 



Tl3<2 



4tlar)tic }s/ior)t\}\j 



Is generally recognized as second to no Literary Magazine in America. It has 
Serial and Short Stories by Kate Douglass Wiggin, .Sarah Orne Jewett, Mrs. 
Catherwood, Miss Murfree, Mrs. Deland; Essays by Prof. Shaler, Agnes 
Repplier, Colonel Higginson, and others of the best American writers. 

TERMS:— $4.00 a Year, in advance. Postage Free. 

Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston. 

11 EAST 17th STREET, NEW YORK. 



^XX ESTABLISHED X 1881 xx^ 

F. E. CHAMPION, 



DEALER IN 



ICE, *i COAL, ii WOOD, 

Pure Spring Water Ice. Best Grades, All Sizes. All Lengths Cut to Order. 



OFFICE AND RESIDENCE: 

636 ASBURY AVENUE, 



Ocean City, New Jersey. 



76 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 

F. PONTIERE, 

SHOE SHOP, 

Asbury Ave. below 9th St., Ocean City. 

...SUMMER WORK A SRECIALTY... 

Oak Sole Leather, and only the best of other materials used in making or 
mending Shoes. 

The best and finest work at the lowest prices. 



MRS. A. B. RANGK. MISS IDA TAYLOR. 

Fashionable Df^bssmai^ing. 

CHILDREN'S CLOTHES A SPECIALTY. 
<:^^^La.test Patterns Always on Hand'^^'^^ 

Asbury Avenue below Seventh Street, ^^'^^ l°Zr^^ r^oom.'- "• 



F. S. OA-TITER & CO., 

PLASTERING AND RANGE SETTING. 



R esidence; 833 Asbupy AvG., Ocean City, N. J. 



OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 77 

mm (^WMAM MAmm Q>m wwmmmm^. 



coj^I. S. CHAMPION, 



(Successor to F. E. CHAMPION.) 
FOR 



MILK, ICE CREAM AND SOFT DRINKS, 

HIE LEiDING illK MUBRS IN OCEAN CITY. 

All kinds of Soft Drinks and Confectionery- 

ESTABLISHED 1881. Cor. Seventti and Asbury. 



BELLEVUE BATH HOUSES,. 

BOARDWALK ABOVE EIGHTH ST. 

FINE RESTAURANT ADJOINING. 

Confectionery - and - Soft - Drinks, 



S. SCHURCH, Proprietor. 



Estimates Cheerfully Given. 
Jobbing a Specialty. 



J. ]%. JOHINSOrV, 

Sanitary PlumTjing and Gas Fitting 

OCEAN CITY W. J. 



78 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 

CARLOS S. CORSON, 

Qmm City Miit liiM. 

^tedh and Suit JllmU almatfA on hand. 

'""'t::'^tzT'' Poiltry, Bnlter ami Im a Sjecialtj. 



(ilAGOB SCHUriP, 



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S. W. Cor. Seventh Street and Asbury Avenue. 
Fresh Bread, Pies and Calces Daily. 

No Cottonseed Oil or Lard Compound, Butterine or Oleomargarine. 
No Chrome Yellow or Alum used. Only the best materials. 

PARTIES AND WEDDINGS SUPPLIED. 

GOODS DELIVERED FREE OF CHARGE. 

NOTHING DELIVERED ON SUNDAY. 



IH lie ^^^. 

Twelfth St. and Asbury Ave., Ocean City, N. J., 

Meats, Flour, Provisions, Fancy Groceiies, 



]3b>a.i^b;r in 



AND FINE IMPORTED TABLE SPECIALTIES. 

Also a full line of high grade Teas, Coffees and Pure Spices constantly on hand. 



Pin& Cwars and Tobacco, 



FULL LINE OP PIPES AND SMOKING TOBACCO. 

Ladies' Hair Cxitting and Shampooing » specialty. 

711 .A.SBUI^■:Z■ .A-VEIsTTJE. 



OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 7 9 

F. P. CANFIELD, 

l?eal . V state . Ag^^^t 

Houses aod lots for sale in all pads of the Citf on easy tefms, 



There never will be a time when lots will be cheaper, with 
so many attractions as Ocean City offers, than now. 

If you want a cottage or home by the sea, on one of the highest beaches on the 
New Jersey coast, with Great Egg Harbor Bay and Inlet on one side and the Atlantic 
Ocean on the other, where the liquor traffic is prohibited in every deed, where the 
Sabbath is observed, where the grass and flowers grow with rare beauty, where the 
sailing is the finest and the boating safe as on an inland lake, where the bathing is as 
good at one hour of the day as another, and no life lines are needed, where there is 
one of the best boardwalks on the New Jersey coast along the strand, where there has 
not been a case of drowning in seven years, where but two persons have been arrested 
for disorderly conduct in eight years, where there is absolutely no malaria, where living 
expenses are as cheap as anywhere, where there is no healthier climate in America, 
then buy one or more lots at Ocean City, while they will cost but a fraction of what 
they are worth at other seaside resorts. 

$100 to $1000 each. 



1 HAVE LOTS ON THE MAIN AVENUES 
FOR SALE AT FR(JM 



I am thoroughly conversant with all facts connected with property on the beach. 
Those desiring any information in regard to Ocean City, or about property, should call 
or correspond with me. 



Cor. Sixth Street and Asbury Avenue, 

OCEAN CITY, N. J. 



8o 



OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 



J. C. V/AHL, 




OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. 

J>**^ \ X / A T T T ^°''" Pennsylvania and Atlantic Ave's, 

- W. VV/\I~11-, ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. 



J. C. STEELMAN. 



F. B. ENGLISH- 



Steelman & English, 



£M®!ffi2UfS© 



'9 



Carpenters, . Contractors . and. Builders, 



Plans. Specifications and Build- 
ing Contracts carefully drawn. 

Perspective views furnished. 



EgtiraatBg (JheBfalliJ ({iVen. 



JOBBING A SPECIALTY. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. 



Office:— 811 ASBURY AVENUK. 



OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 8 1 



For the finest 

FRESH FISH 

Go to 



BRECKLE! « JEFFRIES, 



Setwcen 7th S^- tincl 8lh ^t., <^sbup\) '^'oc. 

If you want the best prepared Salt Fish for Winter use, 
put up in larjj;e or small quantities, we can fill the bill. 

FRESH CLAMS AND HARD AND SOFT SHELL CRABS. 

Give us a Trial Order. Goods Delivered. 



J. B. MORRIS, 

First Fish Market in Ocean City, 

ESTABLISHED IN 1883 . REAR OF 730 ASBWRY AUE . 

Fresh Fish constantly on hand. 

Delivered at Shortest Notice. 



ATLANTIC COAST 

Steamboat Company 



LiRGB THOaOUGULT EilPPED PLEASORE STEiMERS. 



Great Egg Harbor Bay is unsurpassed for sailing or fishing 
by any sheet of water on the coast. Take the steamer at the 
pier at the foot of Second street, (reached from any point in 
the city by trolley cars,) for Somers' Point and Longport direct, 
or for Atlantic City by way of Longport. Excursions to Sea 
from the Inlet at Atlantic Citv. 



82 

GO 
TO 
THE 



OCGAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 



m DRY GOODS 1 NOTION STORE 

Just opened at 

818 ASBURY AVENUE. 

A complete line of Gent's Furnishing Goods. 

RUSSET SHOES, LADIES' AND GENTS' SLIPPERS, 

AND FINE FOOT WEAR OF EVERY DESCRIPTION 

A. C. KNORR. 

T D UAATn ®®^tr®®t©^ ®>^^ 

J, r. nAINR ^^^r r 



Estimates Furnished on all kinds of Work. 



PROMPT ATTENTION GIVEN TO BOTH CONTRACT 
WORK AND JOBBING. 



RESIDEJfCE: 

Cor. West Avenue and I2th Street. 

Icing's ^mef^igan Lcaundi^y^ 

Asbury Ave. below 4th St., Ocean City, N. J. 

Shirts, - - - - 

Collars, 

Cuffs, ... - 

White Vests, 

Gents' Underwear, per piece, 
Gents' Hose, per pair, 

Orders by maif promptly attended to, and work done in first-class style. 

GOODS CALLED FOR AND DELIVERED FREE OF CHARGE. 

MRS. ANNA KING, Proprietress, 



.lO 

•03 
.04 

.25 
.08 
.05 



Flannels, per suit, 


•50 


Ladies' White Dresses, 


- I. GO 


Ladies' Gingham Dresses, 


.50 


Ladies' Wrappers, - 


- 25 


White Shirts, - 


•25 


Washing, per dozen, 


- I.OO 




El 



Ocean City, 
New Jersey. 



R. CURTIS ROBINSON, Editor and Prop'r. 



A spicy seven-column weekly paper, with a very large circulation. Published on 
the border and circulates in three adjoining counties, as well as nearly every State of 
the Union. Advertisers will be wise in giving the SENTINEL a trial order, as our 
city IS visited by thousands from a distance. 



Rates Reasonable 



Ttl? Ocean City... ^ILL be issued every aftemoon (Sun- 

days excepted) during July and 

...Daily Reporter August. 

75 CIS. FOR THE SEASON. TWO CENTS PER COPY. 

R. curtis^obinsonT 



* 1\ ea I J* state 



and 



^jT.. 



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COTTAGES FOR SALE, RENT OR EXCHANGE. 

DESIRABLE BUILDING LOTS AT BARGAINS. 

INSURANCE PLACED IN RELIABLE COMPANIES. 



744-46 Asbury Ave., Ocean City, N. J. 



The Ocean City 



Association. 



REV. S. WESLEY LAKE, President, BRIDGETON, N. J. 

REV. E. B. LAKE, Superintendent and Secretary, OCEAN CITY, N. J. 
DR. G. E. PALEN, Treasurer, 1529 ARCH ST., PHILADELPHIA, PA. 

The Model Christian Seaside Resort, 

OCEAN CITY 



Offers the finest facilities for rest, liealth and recreation. 

Three hundred acres, comprising- the entire city, under 
deeds forever prohibiting the manufacture and sale of intoxicat- 
ing drinks. 

Excellent fishing, boating and gunning. 

The beach is one of the best and safest on the Atlantic 
coast. 

Artesian wells furnish an abundant supply of pure water 
through the New City Water Works. 

Electric street railways and electric lighting and a good 
sewerage system. 

Numerous trains daily afford excellent means of trans- 
portation. 

The above association has lots for sale at various prices 
and in all parts of the city. 

Apply to the Superintendent, Rev. Er B. Lake, or to any 
other officer of the association. 

OGEAM GITY, NEW JERSEY. 



OCEAN CITY GUIDK BOOK. 83 






P L ECTRI C RAJLWAY 



Take the cars at the pier of the Atlantic Coast Steamboat 
Company, at the foot of Second Street, on Great Egg Harbor 
Bay. This road runs north for a short distance, over the 
waters at high tide, thence in a direct line across the city in 
full view of Great Egg Harbor Inlet till it reaches the Ocean 
strand, which it follows the remainder of the route. 

That this is a delightful ride need scarcely be added. 

Already patronized by thousands, its popularity has but 
begun and the Electric Railway forms the chief attraction of 
the city. 




84 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 



PRESS OF 

OCEAN CITY SENTINEL, 

OCEAN CITY, N. J., 

R. CURTIS ROBINSON, PROPRIETOR. 



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